Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Kurt Ulrich Filmproduktion
Keywords
- court case
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Top Cast
Martin Held as Direktor Werner Rameil
Hanns Lothar as Rechtsanwalt Dr. Fox
Ellen Schwiers as Ingrid Bernhardy
Jürgen Goslar as Dr. Heinz Stephan
Adelheid Seeck as Gerda Rameil
Werner Hinz as Landgerichtsrat Ricker
Lore Hartling as Assessorin Ebeling
Siegfried Wischnewski as Kriminalinspektor Gerhuf
Top Crew
Wolfgang Staudte · Director
Robert A. Stemmle · Screenplay
Thomas Keck · Screenplay
Maximilian Vernberg · Story
Werner Eisbrenner · Composer
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