Knife in the Head
Year: 1978
Runtime: 108 mins
Language: German
Director: Reinhard Hauff
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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