The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1975 ‘Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum’ Directed by Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
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Katharina Blum is a young women in her mid 20's who meets a young man, Ludwig, at a party and with whom she has a one night stand.
Next morning she is arrested and accused of aiding and abetting a known terrorist. Once the tabloids get hold of the story her life is put under the microscope and plastered over the front pages.
The film takes a critical look at the role of the press in a 'western democracy', the lengths they go to find the 'truth' and the effect their story's have on the people they are writing about.
The debate surrounding the freedom of the press continues as strongly today as it did when this film was released…
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Film #45 of Cinebro's "Kill it with Fire" Challenge
An alarmingly prescient look at tabloid journalism in an age of political paranoia, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum is one of those wonderful 70s movies (alongside Network and The Conversation) that seem to get more significant with age.
Based on a novel by Heinrich Böll, Blum tells the story of a young housekeeper (Angela Winkler) who has a one-night stand with a tall, dark, and handsome stranger who also happens to be a fugitive terrorist. When she's incorrectly identified as a fellow traveler, an invasive police investigation leads to an even more invasive journalistic inquiry. Though there's scant evidence that she's involved in the harboring of a fugitive, the powers…
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Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
A young West German woman spends a night with a man - her flat is raided the next morning by police on the hunt for Red Army terrorists. The film shows the destruction of her life by newspaper journalists that follows her arrest, and sadly could have been set in modern times in this country. This is a good film which should make everyone think about how important freedom of the press is, and the abuses that don't have to be an inevitable consequence of media freedoms.
I have only told a little of the story, just enough to hopefully make some of you interested in the film.
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Katharina conoce a un hombre misterioso en una fiesta y lo lleva inmediatamente a su casa. Ellos hacen una conexion pero el hombre se marcha. Al dia siguiente el gobierno aleman aparece en su puerta y ella es interrogada, al parecer el hombre es un peligroso terrorista pero Katharina niega haberlo conocido antes de esa fiesta.
"The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" es un ataque directo contra el gobierno y los medios de comunicacion en Alemania en 1975. Se podria decir que es un producto de su tiempo y el dificil clima politico y social sin embargo tambien podemos encontrar paralelos con la actualidad y los casos donde los periodicos acosan a los protagonistas de sus encabezados e inventan historias para vender mas copias. He aqui una cinta efectiva y provocativa. October 22, 2011 -
Film #45 of Cinebro's "Kill it with Fire" Challenge
An alarmingly prescient look at tabloid journalism in an age of political paranoia, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum is one of those wonderful 70s movies (alongside Network and The Conversation) that seem to get more significant with age.
Based on a novel by Heinrich Böll, Blum tells the story of a young housekeeper (Angela Winkler) who has a one-night stand with a tall, dark, and handsome stranger who also happens to be a fugitive terrorist. When she's incorrectly identified as a fellow traveler, an invasive police investigation leads to an even more invasive journalistic inquiry. Though there's scant evidence that she's involved in the harboring of a fugitive, the powers…
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Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
A young West German woman spends a night with a man - her flat is raided the next morning by police on the hunt for Red Army terrorists. The film shows the destruction of her life by newspaper journalists that follows her arrest, and sadly could have been set in modern times in this country. This is a good film which should make everyone think about how important freedom of the press is, and the abuses that don't have to be an inevitable consequence of media freedoms.
I have only told a little of the story, just enough to hopefully make some of you interested in the film. -
Katharina Blum is a young women in her mid 20's who meets a young man, Ludwig, at a party and with whom she has a one night stand.
Next morning she is arrested and accused of aiding and abetting a known terrorist. Once the tabloids get hold of the story her life is put under the microscope and plastered over the front pages.
The film takes a critical look at the role of the press in a 'western democracy', the lengths they go to find the 'truth' and the effect their story's have on the people they are writing about.
The debate surrounding the freedom of the press continues as strongly today as it did when this film was released…
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the Fascist media destroys people, even if they haven't done something unlawful.
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A very interesting and absorbing film which seems to be about the perversion of freedom by the fear of non-existant terrorism. A bit like today's society then (are you listening America?).