Knife in the Head

Directed by Reinhard Hauff
Run Time 114 min

Bruno Ganz gives a tour-de-force performance as Hoffman, an innocent bystander who survives a gunshot to the head by the police during a raid on a group of revolutionaries. In order to justify the shooting, the police claim he is a dangerous radical who attacked a policeman. The leftist revolutionaries in turn claim him as a hero and victim of police brutality. As Hoffman struggles to recover from the trauma to his brain and memory loss, he must try to piece together what really happened that fateful night.

Name Role
Reinhard Hauff Director
Bruno Ganz Hoffman
Angela Winkler Ann
Hans Christian Blech Anleitner
Carla Egerer Schwester Angelika
Heinz Hoenig Volker
Country Germany
Run time 114 min
Year Completed 1978