Knife in the Head(Movie, 1978)

Name: Knife in the Head
Genre: Drama
Released: 1978
Duration: T01:48:00
Rating: 2.9

Original title: "Messer im Kopf" (German/DE)

| 1h 48min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Knife in the Head (German: Messer im Kopf) is a 1978 West German drama film directed by Reinhard Hauff and starring Bruno Ganz. The film follows the recovery of a man shot in the head by the police during the raid of a left-wing social centre. It won awards in Paris and Berlin. ()

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About Knife in the Head

One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.

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Production country: Germany

Made by: Bioskop-Film GmbH

Original language: German (DE)

Spoken languages: German (DE)

Translated into 10 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 04/23/1980 (World premiere: 11/17/1978)

Cast: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech, Heinz Hoenig, Udo Samel, Carla Egerer, Hans Brenner, Eike Gallwitz, Gabriele Dossi, Gert Burkard

Director: Reinhard Hauff

Producer: Eberhard Junkersdorf, Wolf-Dietrich Brücker

Screenwriter: Peter Schneider

Film Editor: Peter Przygodda

Director of Photography: Frank Brühne

Composer: Irmin Schmidt

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