CAST:
Angela Winkler (Katharina Blum),
Mario Adorf (Beizmenne),
Dieter Lasser (Werner),
Jürgen Prochnow (Ludwig),
Heinz Bennent (dr. Hubert Blorna),
Hannelore Hoger (Trude Blorna)

SCRIPT:
Volker Schlöndorf,
Margarethe von Trotta (based on novel by Heinrich Böll)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jost Vacano

MUSIC:
Hans Werner Henze

EDITING:
Peter Przygodda

Synopsis:
Katharina Blum works in a lawyer’s office. One day she comes home with a man and spends the night with him. Next morning he is gone and the police are after her. Katharina does not say anything to the police because she does not even know anything about the man. But, the gossip newspaper publishes an article in which she is accused of being a collaborator of a dangerous anarchist…

color, 106'