The Price of the Body

The young and beautiful West German girl Katarina Bloom (played by Angela Winkler) has a failed marriage. She accidentally meets the British soldier Ludwig Gorton (played by Jürgen Prochnow) at a party at a relative's house. The two fall in love at first sight and spend a romantic night together. However, early the next morning, the military police broke in and searched everywhere, but Gorton was nowhere to be seen. It turns out that Gorton is a robber wanted by the police, and Catalina is arrested as an accomplice. The police search caused a sensation, and "Bild" reporter Tot Geiss (played by Dieter Laser) went around to inquire about information and collect Katarina's privacy. He provided the collected materials to Sheriff Baiz Miner (Mario Adorf), who then used them as evidence to torture Catalina. Katarina, who originally lived a peaceful life, fell to the bottom in an instant... This film is adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous German writer and Nobel Prize winner for Literature Heinrich Böll.