![]() ![]() Hoffman’s leftist associates, meanwhile, claim he is an innocent victim of police brutality. As he lies in a German neurosurgical unit, paralyzed and unable to speak because the bullet track has traversed his motor cortex and “speech center”, the police assert he was shot in self-defense after trying to attack a policeman with a knife, and are hoping to arrest him as soon as he is fit to leave the hospital. Instead, it is Hoffman who is shot in the head after he breaches a cordon of riot police to enter the youth center, fearing that his wife is trapped inside. “An American in my position would start shooting out the window”, he declares. His angst is immediately evident as he prepares to meet his wife Ann (Angela Winkler), a social worker, who is having an ongoing affair with a leftist organizer, Volker (Heinz Hoening), at a demonstration outside a local youth center scheduled for demolition. Berthold Hoffman (Bruno Ganz), a geneticist working in a Max Planck research institute in Hamburg. In a brief prologue preceding this arresting opening salvo, the audience is introduced to the film’s protagonist, Dr. The resulting frissons experienced by the viewer serve as valid omens that the ensuing viewing experience will not fail to satisfy the intellect, the gut, and the soul. ![]() And the credits roll, over a mesmerizing electronica anthem that periodically populates the sound track of this finely honed political, criminological, medical and human drama. ![]()
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