Knife in the Head

Knife in the Head — Plot

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.

• Release date
• November 17, 1978
• Runtime
• 108 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Reinhard Hauff

Knife in the Head — Cast

Bruno Ganz Hoffmann Angela Winkler Ann Hans Christian Blech Anleitner Heinz Hoenig Volker Hans Brenner Scholz Udo Samel Schurig

E

Eike Gallwitz Dr. Groeske

C

Carla Egerer Schwester Angelika