Knife in the Head

Year: 1978

Runtime: 108 mins

Language: German

Director: Reinhard Hauff

Drama

Hoffmann looks for his wife at a youth center where police are rounding up radicals. He darts inside, is shot in the head, and wakes in hospital with brain trauma and muteness. Police charge him with stabbing an officer; activists say he is a victim of police brutality. While recovering, he tries to recall the night.

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