Born in Marburg in 1939, Reinhard Hauff came from television and made political films in the New German Cinema. Knife in the Head (Messer im Kopf, 1978), in which a scientist shot by police in a raid has to relearn his own life, with Bruno Ganz, is among the best known German political films of the 1970s. Stammheim (1986), a reconstruction of the trial of the Baader-Meinhof leaders, won the Golden Bear in Berlin. Endstation Freiheit (1980) is a prison drama.
Filmography
- Knife in the Head (1978)
- Stammheim (1986)