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Knife in the Head

6.4 108 mins Drama   1978
Neue Bioskop Film  
Director(s): Reinhard Hauff

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.

Casts of Knife in the Head

Bruno Ganz

as Hoffmann

Hans Christian Blech

as Anleitner

Heinz Hoenig

as Volker

Hans Brenner

as Scholz

Udo Samel

as Schurig

Eike Gallwitz

as Dr. Groeske

Carla Egerer

as Schwester Angelika

Gabriele Dossi

as Schwester Emilie

Hans Fuchs

as Chefarzt

Gert Burkard

as Institutsdirektor Ahrens

Karl Scheydt

as Kommissar

Erich Kleiber

as Pförtner Arnold

Heinz Hürländer

as Kommissar

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