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In the Name of the People (1974)
Directed by Ottokar Runze
Documentary · 2h 08m
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
Crew
- Director
- Ottokar Runze
- Writer
- Ottokar Runze
- Director of Photography
- Paul Ellmerer, Michael Epp
- Producer
- Ottokar Runze
Details
- Original title
- Im Namen des Volkes
- Release date
- 1974-11-07
- Runtime
- 2h 08m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German