Man Under Suspicion

• Maximilian Schell as a lawyer Landau
• Lena Stolze as Jessica Kranz
• Robert Aldini as Werner Kranz
• Wolfgang Kieling as a reporter Watergate
• Kathrin Ackermann as a judge
• Manfred Rendl as a prosecutor
• Reinhard Hauff as Holm
• Jörg Hube as Commissioner summer
• Klaus Höhne as a bailiff
• Robert Atzorn as senior prosecutor
• Dagobert Lindlau as a reporter at news conference

Morning in Alabama is a German feature film from the year 1984.

Action

Werner Kranz is a young trainee. He committed an attack against a minister. Lawyer Landau is entrusted as a public defender with the case. It is believed a terrorist background, but Kranz claims to be a single perpetrator and refuses to cooperate with Landau. Landau tries to figure out more about the case on its own investigation and has well-founded suspicions that wreath right-wing backers must have had in his act. Evidence that would be sustainable in court, he does not find it. Wreath will eventually acquitted and commits another attack in which he is killed.

Background

Director and screenwriter Kückelmann itself is a lawyer and his earlier films played in the judicial milieu. The film Morning in Alabama arose against the background of the bombing of Munich's Oktoberfest 1980 and of documents relating new right-wing radicalism in the former Federal Republic.

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film: attempt of a German political thriller, which is differentiated and knowledgeable, the ratio of individual guilt and the state judicial system and the inadequate means of pretrial discovery and management. The ambition of the film to prepare his thesis cinematic ', however, falls from awkward and cliched. In particular, the connection between the professional and personal problems of the hero seems overloaded and takes the subject quite a bit of explosiveness.

Awards

The film was in competition at the Berlinale in part in 1984 and won a Silver Bear. In 1984 he also received the German Film Award in Silver.