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Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he i...( read more 
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MCT:April 10, 2008This movie is guaranteed to be horrible so here is some Billy Squire for your amusement:
"Now everybody, have you heard
If you're in the game, then the stroke's the word
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MCT:March 3, 2008a masterpiece for that epoch ...West Germany , the wall ,RAF, white killing cells ,
terrorism ,but the official terrorism more strong , eliminating people...Volker Schlondorff , academy prized is the director -
MCT:October 27, 2007Despite Heinrich Böll's extreme politics and his support for the Baader-Meinhof Gang, it's hard to deny that The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum is one of the best novels of the 20th century. Inspired by vicious attacks on Böll by Axel Springer through his newspaper Bild-Zeitung, it represents perhaps the most scathing attack on yellow journalism ever penned. The narrative revolves around Katharina Blum, whose name is dragged through the mud by both the police and the press, who even manage to work together in the smear campaign. She is accused of aiding and abetting a known felon who she falls for on a chance meeting. The stress from the very pointed and accusatory police interrogation, being sensationalized front page fodder for the tabloids as well as being in love with a man on the lam all cause the normally demure Katharina to act out in unthinkable ways. SPOILER WARNING: Although I was skeptical when I realized that the directors Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta had shot the film in a different sequence than the novel (we don't see Katharina murder journalist Werner Tötges until late in the movie) not only did they pull it off but it may have been the better choice for the film medium. Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave the film a rather mediocre review, claims that the murder doesn't "fit the film as a whole." When we see how the press has turned a woman, who friends jokingly referred to as "the nun", into a promiscuous whore and begin to see "the lost honor" from the first person perspective rather than the third person, the murder begins to makes sense. If we add the fact that Tötges is indirectly responsible for her mother's death and that Katharina has learned that the man she loves is looking at 8 to 10 years (as she would have probably recieved for such a crime in 1970s Germany) then the murder not only appears possible but even probable and fits the film quite well. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum remains not just a great film but a very prescient one in the age of highly consolidated media and The Patriot Act.
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