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Knife in the Head (1978)

Knife in the Head (1978)

Drama
Release Date: 1978, November 17
Directors: Reinhard Hauff
Countries: Germany
Production: Neue Bioskop Film, Neue Bioskop Film
Cast: Udo Samel, Angela Winkler, Bruno Ganz, Heinz Hoenig, Hans Christian Blech, Karl Scheydt, Gabriele Dossi, Gert Burkard, Erich Kleiber, Hans Brenner, Eike Gallwitz, Carla Egerer

Overview:

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.