Messer im Kopf

Germany, 1978
FILM, Fiction, 113 min.

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directed by
Reinhard Hauff
Written by
Peter Schneider
Status
In distribution

During a raid on a left wing youth centre, biogeneticist Hoffmann is shot in the head, losing his memory and ability to speak. Forced to build up a second existence from scratch, Hoffmann embarks on a laborious process of physical an mental recovery as he searches for the truth about the incident and for his identity and position in a society in which he is instrumentalised by the one side as a "terrorist" and by the other as "a victim of police terror".

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World Premiere
1978
Original Version
German,  colour, 35mm, 113 min.
Production
Bioskop Film GmbH, Halleluja Film, WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln
Producer
directed by
Reinhard Hauff
Written by
Peter Schneider
Cinemato­graphy
Frank Brühne
Editing
Peter Przygodda
Music
Irmin Schmidt
Production Design
Heidi Lüdi

Cast

Bruno Ganz as Berthold Hoffmann
Angela Winkler as Ann Hoffmann
Hans Christian Blech as Anleitner
Heinz Hoenig as Volker
Hans Brenner as Scholz
Udo Samel as Schurig

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