Film
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
- Director
- Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 106 mins
Katharina Blum (Angela Walker) is a shy, apolitical young women who meets a man at a party and sleeps with him, unaware that he’s a wanted terrorist. The next morning, she’s arrested by armed police and her life is subsequently ruined by a smear campaign in the press.
Volker Schlöndorff and his wife Margarethe von Trotta‘s 1975 adaptation of Heinrich Boll‘s novel remains a powerful indictment of the gutter press. It’s back on screen to launch the Watershed’s The Personal is Political: The Films of Margarethe von Trotta season. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer and Dr Gozde Naiboglu, Lecturer in Film Studies at University of Leicester
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