Movie Details
Original Language:German
In the Name of the People
2 hr 8 minDocumentary
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
