The Brutalization of Franz Blum (movie)
Die Verrohung des Franz Blum- User score: 5.5
- Production country: Germany
- Producer: Reinhard Hauff
- Production companies: Neue Bioskop Film, WDR
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 3/26/1974
- Run time: 104 min.
Movie description
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent...
