Heinrich Böll
Leading postwar German writer whose politics and prose found favor with a number of directors of the New German Cinema. First adapted to the screen by the team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet in the mid-1960s, the best known film from Boll is Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta's "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" (1975)--subsequently made into the American network TV movie "The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck" (1984).
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ode to Cologne: A Rock 'n' Roll Film | Himself (archive footage) (Character) | - | 2002 |
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum | Writer | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Das Brot der frühen Jahre | Writer | - | 1962 |