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The Collini Case
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1078
- IMDb #1614
- Letterboxd #2112
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2147
- Kinopoisk #236
- AlloCiné #496
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Every rating
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Lowest is Letterboxd on 71, highest is AlloCiné on 82.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young and idealistic lawyer is assigned to defend an Italian man named Collini who has brutally murdered a prominent German industrialist. The case seems straightforward, as Collini freely admits to the crime. However, the lawyer is shocked to discover that the victim was his own beloved grandfather, who raised him. Torn between his professional duty and personal grief, he digs deeper into the motive. His investigation leads him into a dark chapter of German history, uncovering a historical injustice that explains the seemingly senseless murder and challenging the foundations of the German legal system.
Details
- Director
- Marco Kreuzpaintner
- Writers
- Christian Zübert, Jens-Frederik Otto, Robert Gold
- Studio
- Constantin Film, Mythos Film, SevenPictures Film
- Released
- 18 April 2019
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Runtime
- 118 min
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