The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum ★★★ Die Verlorene Ehre Der Katharina Blum 1975 (R)

A woman becomes involved with a man who's under police surveillance and finds her life open to public scrutiny and abuse from the media and the government. Based on Heinrich Boll's prize-winning novel. In German with English subtitles. Remade for TV as “The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck.” 97m/C VHS, DVD . GE Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jurgen Prochnow; D: Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe von Trotta.

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