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Knife in the Head (1978)
Director: Reinhard Hauff
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From Time Out Film Guide
From a mix of classic American paranoia and German police gangsterism, Hauff weaves a disturbing and suspenseful yarn. Surviving a police bullet, scientist Berthold Hoffmann (Ganz) awakes in hospital as a stranger in his own land: without memory or speech, branded a terrorist by the police and a martyr by leftists - neither of which is 'Hoffmann' - his future depends upon retracing the events of an alien past. Shot in cold and clinical fashion, the film's drive depends upon an atmosphere so angst-laden the characters struggle for breath. Doubly disquieting - for the society it depicts, but even more for the film's own dispassion: a calculated gamble in trying to come to cool, dramatic terms with an impossibly over-dramatic reality. DMacp.Author: DMacp
Cast & crew
Director: Reinhard Hauff
Producer: Eberhard Junkersdorf
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech, Hans Hönig, Hans Brenner, Udo Samel full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 113 mins
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