“WWe need to understand evil,” said Ferdinand von Schirach, a German lawyer and best-selling novelist. “Only in this way can we bear it. “His grandfather was the head of the Hitler Youth League, and his grandmother was Hitler’s secretary. Now, Von Schirach’s thriller about the legacy of Nazism The story of a grandfather with a dark past has been adapted into a courtroom drama that can be watched but is boring and outdated-clichés and clumsy performances are disappointing, which makes the film lose its tension.
Elias Mbarek plays Kasper Lenin, the new public defender, who is constantly reminded that his Turkish origin keeps him out of the system. Three months later, he started his career, representing an Italian man who was accused of murdering a famous business tycoon. The evidence has no doubt about what happened: Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero) opened the head of Hans Meyer (Manfred Zapatka) Three shots left a mark on his face so hard that he found brain material on his shoes. But Colini didn’t speak. The core mystery of the film was his motive, which stems from the wartime events revealed in the sepia flashback, so traditional that it sometimes feels close to imitation.
The first turning point was when Casper got to know the victim: Meyer was like a father, he let him finish college. “Without him, you would work in a rotisserie,” the old man’s granddaughter Johanna (Alessandra Maria Lara) spit out viciously-despite her stubborn persistence when her grandfather’s early life was exposed. It has never been properly explored. Similarly, the gentle family lawyer Richard Matinger (played by Heiner Lauterbach) coaxed and bullied Casper into accepting a guilty plea agreement, and it turned out that the role played in the past has not been satisfactorily explained.
In real life, From Schirach’s grandfather Baldur Sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trial. The center of the film is a scandal involving German legislation after the war. It frustrated the investigation of other Third Reich war criminals, but this world full of moral gloom and justification felt immature and failed to resurrect successfully.
