Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1975)
16KDie verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta. With Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow. A young woman’s life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
“Apart from its general and still (i.e. now more than ever) valid attacks on the scrupelous tactics of tabloid journalism, this movie is also very valuable as a time piece about German society in the 1970u0026#39;s, when the country was shaken by fear of terrorist assassinations and everything considered anti-Democratic (meaning left-wing). In this way, the film not only takes into question the missing morality of tabloid journalists, but also the loss of human rights in a society bothered with questions of homeland security (parallels to the current situation in the U.S. are obvious). Katharina Blum is not only destroyed by the merciless press abusing her for sensationalist journalism, but also by a police and judicial system that doesnu0026#39;t value an individualu0026#39;s right of privacy anymore, and even less the principle of innocent until proven otherwise.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA film of exceptional quality (even though the acting isnu0026#39;t convincing at some times), u0026quot;Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blumu0026quot; is strongly recommended to every thinking movie fan with an interest in the abuse of power in our not-so-democratic society.”
