
The Collini Case
onstantin Film is adapting German author Ferdinand von Schirach’s international bestseller “The Collini Case,” a legal thriller that deals with Germany’s So Long, My Son Nazi past and that was inspired by the author’s own family history.
Elyas M’Barek (pictured), of “Fack ju Göhte” fame and one of Germany’s leading actors, toplines the film, “Der Fall Collini,” which is being directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner from a screenplay by Christian Zuebert, Robert Gold and Jens-Frederik Otto. M’Barek plays an attorney who takes on a defendant accused of the vicious murder of a respected elderly businessman. In researching The Isle the case, the young lawyer comes across one of the biggest judicial scandals in German history and a truth that nobody wants to face.
Alexandra Maria Lara (“You Are Wanted”) and Heiner Lauterbach (“Welcome to Germany”) also star in the courtroom drama, which is shooting this year for Ghost Town Anthology a 2019 release via Constantin. Christoph Müller, Kerstin Schmidbauer and Marcel Hartges are producing, with Constantin CEO Martin Moszkowicz serving as executive producer.
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Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Actors: Alexandra Maria Lara, Elyas M’Barek, Franco Nero, Frederik Götz, Heiner Lauterbach, Peter Prager, Sandro Di Stefano
Country: Germany