From a quarter-century away, Volker Schlöndorff returns to the battleground of The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, the "glory days" of Left-wing terrorism in Germany, when concepts such as "imperialism," "oppression," "pigs," "the ruling class," "revolution," etc., were freely bandied about. Coolheaded, nonjudgmental, perhaps a touch nostalgic, the filmmaker knows the territory from close at hand, and he gives us particularly illuminating glimpses into the aid and comfort afforded the terrorists by East German officials. We knew about this. We now see how it worked. The last two-thirds of the film, after the protagonist (Bibiana Beglau, a Teutonic Debra Winger, strong, tough, no frills, no flounce) opts out of terrorism for a new life of anonymity in the GDR proletariat, are of less interest. But not none. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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