Knife in the Head

1980
Knife in the Head
7| 1h48m| R| en| Drama
Storyline

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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  • Knife in the Head Cast
Bruno Ganz as Hoffmann
Heinz Hoenig as Volker
Hans Brenner as Scholz
Udo Samel as Schurig
Gabriele Dossi as Schwester Emilie
Gert Burkard as Institutsdirektor Ahrens
Karl Scheydt as Kommissar