Co-presented with Telescope Film

KINO! Film Salon is a monthly online club to discuss films from Germany.
 
How it works: Each month, we choose a German film currently available to stream on U.S. platforms, watch it independently, and come together for a hosted conversation with other fans of German cinema.

For our October session, we picked The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, a 1975 classic directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta. Based on the novel by Heinrich Böll, the film follows housekeeper Katharina Blum as she navigates media scrutiny and personal ruin after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist. Curator Jim Kolmar calls it “a startlingly prescient film whose incendiary social commentary continues to send shockwaves fifty years later. Today, the film still impresses with its evocation of state-sponsored violence, a lurid, predatory press hungry for a scoop, and the fragile nature of facts that can be all too easily manipulated.” The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum received two German Film Awards in Gold, for lead actress Angela Winkler and cinematographer Jost Vacano.

Hosted by Jim Kolmar

Jim programs for SXSW and Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, and was a founding committee member of Festival Internacional de Cine Tulum (FICTU). He has participated in numerous international festival juries, panels, and committees.
 
KINO! Film Salon is a production of Telescope Film, in partnership with the German Film Office.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Dir. Volker Schlöndorff/Margarethe von Trotta
West Germany, 1975
106 minutes
With Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow