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In the Name of the People
1974 ยท 2 hrs 8 mins
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.
Director: Ottokar Runze
Cast: Gerd Siekmann, Heinz-Dietrich Stark, Hajo Wandschneider