Knife in the Head Movie Review 1978

Biogeneticist Berthold Hoffman (Ganz) is meeting his wife (Winkler) at the left-wing youth centre where she works when there's a police raid and Berthold is shot in the head. He awakens in the hospital having lost both his memory and all physical co-ordination. Determined to battle his disabilities, Berthold also becomes the pawn in a political game between the police and political dissidents. In German with English subtitles.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 108 minutes.
Originally from German.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Politics, Germany, Cops, Physical Problems

Screenplay

Peter Schneider

Cast

Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Honig, Hans Brenner, Udo Samel, Carla Egerer

Director

Reinhard Hauff