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Knife in the Head

Knife in the Head

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 17, 1978

Runtime

1h 48m

Genres

Drama

User Score

63%

Original Title

Messer im Kopf

Production Companies

Neue Bioskop Film

Director

Reinhard Hauff

Description

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.