After directing all seven episodes of the high-profile TV series Beat, Marco Kreuzpaintner (Trade [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], 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 [+lire aussi :
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In this courtroom drama, Elyas M'Barek (the beloved actor from the Suck Me Shakespeer [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] 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 Zübert, Robert 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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