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 is a terrorist. But he was no longer here. Katharina is arrested, humiliated, suspected to be a terrorist herself, dragged in the mud by the newspapers... A plea for democracy and individual rights.

Starring:

Achim Strietzel, Angela Winkler, Dieter Laser, Hannelore Hoger, Harald Kuhlmann, Heinz Bennent, Henry van Lyck, Herbert Fux, Hildegard Linden, Jürgen Prochnow, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Margarethe von Trotta, Mario Adorf, Peter Franke, Regine Lutz, Rolf Becker, Walter Gontermann, Werner Eichhorn

Genre:

Drama