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Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
23 audience votes
Key crew
- Reinhard HauffDirector
- Peter SchneiderWriter
Cast
- Bruno GanzHoffmann
- Angela WinklerAnn
- Hans Christian BlechAnleitner
- Heinz HoenigVolker
- Hans BrennerScholz
- Udo SamelSchurig
- Eike GallwitzDr. Groeske
- Carla EgererSchwester Angelika
- Gabriele DossiSchwester Emilie
- Hans FuchsChefarzt
- Gert BurkardInstitutsdirektor Ahrens
- Karl ScheydtKommissar