Murer - Anatomie eines Prozesses (2018)
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Cast
Karl Fischer, Alexander E. Fennon, Melita Jurisic, Ursula Ofner, Karl Markovics, Gerhard Liebmann, Roland Jaeger, Doval'e Glickmann, Rainer Wöss
Original documents frame a courtroom drama about the prosecution of Franz Murer over his wartime role in the killing of Jews in Vilnius.
The story
In 1962, in Graz, the Austrian public prosecutor’s office brings Franz Murer to trial over his role as one of the main people responsible for the killing of Jews in Vilnius from 1941 to 1943. A respected Styrian politician from the ÖVP and large-scale farmer, Murer is prosecuted following the legal intervention of Simon Wiesenthal. Holocaust survivors travel to Graz to testify against him. Reconstructing the case through original documents, the courtroom drama centers on the prosecution and the testimony of the survivors.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
mini|links|Karl Fischer mini|links|From left to right: Adrien Chef, Paul Thiltges, Viktoria Salcher, and Mathias Forberg. This courtroom drama reconstructs, using original documents, the case of Franz Murer, a respected Styrian politician from the ÖVP and large-scale farmer who was one of the main people responsible for the killing of Jews in Vilnius during the Second World War, from 1941 to 1943. In 1962, in Graz, the Austrian public prosecutor’s office brings Murer to trial for this, following the legal intervention of Simon Wiesenthal. Holocaust survivors travel there to testify against him. Despite the overwhelming evidence, the trial ends in an acquittal in 1963.
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