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The story and the development of the characters make this a really convincing movie. In a way it's possible to think of this movie as a little contemporary German 2025 cousin of "12 angry man", or relate it to "anatomy of a fall".

The characters are really well constructed, which makes one think about all the perspectives shown across the narrative. Still not sure why the movie has so little information about it, or such low number of votes. Definitely deserves more attention.

The theme of the movie is (unfortunately) something that still prevails on todays society, and ia widely explored through the analysis of behaviour and statistics. Still, it's a movie to divide you into thinking on several angles of a certain event.

This is a plea for there to be an English subtitled version. I saw it at German Society of PA Friday Film Night. Why has it stuck with me? It speaks to the winding down of the Me Too movement. The accused is a mature, accomplished man engaged in a long-term extramarital affair. By not leaving his wife, he disappoints the complainant. His alleged failure to stop the consentual sex when she told him to one day formed the flimsy basis for a rape accusation. Dramatic license is employed to good effect.

On one level, it shows how the rights of the accused can be neglected in that court system. Anatomie d'une chute (2023) has something similar as to the French court system.

There is a smart alec lawyer named Biegler: a reference to the defense lawyer in Autopsie d'un meurtre (1959).