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The Collini Case soon to hit German screens

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- Marco Kreuzpaintner's courtroom drama, adapted from Ferdinand von Schirach’s bestseller, stars Franco Nero, Elyas M’Barek and Alexandra Maria Lara

The Collini Case soon to hit German screens
The Collini Case by Marco Kreuzpaintner

After directing all seven episodes of the high-profile TV series Beat, Marco Kreuzpaintner (Trade [+see also:
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, Krabat [+see also:
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) is making a return to the silver screen with The Collini Case [+see also:
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, an adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Ferdinand von Schirach, whose work has already inspired several audiovisual productions, including the series Shades of Guilt and Detlev Buck's action-packed crime-comedy Asphaltgorillas [+see also:
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In this courtroom drama, Elyas M'Barek (the beloved actor from the Suck Me Shakespeer [+see also:
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saga) plays the role of Caspar Leinen, an inexperienced lawyer who is assigned a case that will spiral into a judicial scandal. His client, the defendant, is a retired Italian worker called Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero), who has allegedly murdered a prominent industrialist (Manfred Zapatka). As Collini remains silent, Leinen uncovers two troubling truths: the victim turns out to be the grandfather of his childhood sweetheart Johanna (Alexandra Maria Lara), and the case touches on a problem at the heart of the German legal system that nobody wants to know anything about...

The Collini Case, scripted by fellow director Christian ZübertRobert Gold, and Jens-Frederik Otto, and produced by Constantin Film Produktion in co-production with Seven Pictures Film, was shot between late August and mid-October. Constantin Films will release it in Germany on 18 April. The film's international sales are handled by Global Screen.

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