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The Last Witness

The Last Witness (Der letzte Zeuge)

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  • West Germany
  • 1960
  • · 102m

Director Wolfgang Staudte
Cast Martin Held, Hanns Lothar, Ellen Schwiers, Jürgen Goslar, Adelheid Seeck, Werner Hinz
Genre Crime

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid (Ellen Schwiers) who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer (Hanns Lothar) has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.

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