In the Name of the People

2h 8m

In this German film, inmates guilty of a prison murder are put on trial before a court consisting of other inmates. The trial is given the full formal treatment it might receive in a civilian setting. The key point in this film is that these are the actual murderers admitting their actual crimes before a judges' panel consisting of their peers: actual prisoners at the same institution. Having no force of law, the trial proceeds without reaching a conclusion. That is something the viewer is asked to provide. This movie won a Silver Bear from the 1974 Berlin Film Festival.

Cast

Gerd Siekmann

Crew

Ottokar Runze

Director, Writer, Producer

Paul Ellmerer

Director of Photography

Michael Epp

Director of Photography

In the Name of the People

Cast

Crew

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