The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Join us at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive when we see The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, a moving film by German directors Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta. This film is part of the PFA’s months-long Fassbinder and the New German Cinema retrospective. NOTE: It is recommended that you purchase tickets in advance.

"Adapted from the Heinrich Böll novel which was in turn based on a real incident, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has frequently been compared with Costa-Gavras’ film Z for its pace and implications as a political thriller. After sleeping with an army deserter and suspected terrorist, a domestic servant finds herself persecuted and victimized by a police investigation and subsequent press coverage which turns her past into lurid sensationalism. . . . Coming after the post-Watergate glorification of the role of the press as ‘truth-tellers’, the film unabashedly makes its target the dubious practices of the right-wing German tabloid press” (Richard Kwietniowski).— Pacific Film Archive

Pacific Film Archive Tickets, Information, and Directions: https://bampfa.org/event/lost-honor-katharina-blum

Fassbinder and the New German Cinema (March 6 – May 17): https://bampfa.org/program/Fassbinder-New-German-Cinema

6:30 Meet at PFA's Box Office (2155 Center Street) to purchase or pick up tickets.
The film starts at 7:00.
8:45 After the film we will meet at Elaichi cafe on 2161 Allston Way for conversation.