"I am a clown," says Hans. "I collect moments." Ostensibly intended by Boll as a simple definition of character, the statement offers considerable insight into Boll's philosophical perspective and could easily be attributed to any number of Boll's protagonists, among them Roberg Fahmel in Billiards at Half-Past Nine, Leni Pfeiffer in Group Portrait with Lady (1973), and Katharina Blum in The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975). Boll was uniquely adept at creating sympathetic, humane characters, genuinely sincere, yet often passive in their opposition to the.....
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