The Twelve Jurors (1963)
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| Original title | The twelve jurors |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Günter Gräwert |
| script |
Reginald Rose Horst Budjuhn |
| camera | Oskar Schnirch |
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The Twelve Jurors is a TV film by ZDF . It is based on Reginald Rose's television play "Twelve Angry Men", which was translated by Horst Budjuhn .
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After six days of a murder trial in which a nineteen-year-old Puerto Rican from the slums is accused of murdering his father, the twelve jurors withdraw to the jury room of the court. Here they should discuss the judgment, which must be passed unanimously. If found guilty, the accused faces execution by the electric chair . Based on two clear testimony, the guilty verdict appears to be a straightforward matter that does not require long deliberation. But in the first vote, jury number 8 is the only one of the twelve jurors to vote not guilty, while the other eleven, more or less convinced, vote in favor of condemning the young man.
Juror No. 8 cannot say whether the accused is innocent - but he cannot identify any clear guilt in the alleged murderer either and does not want to sacrifice a human life frivolously through a hasty judgment. Some jury, on the other hand, are interested in a quick end of the consultation for various reasons and therefore urge a quick verdict, not least because the weather forecast says the day will be the hottest of the year and the humid atmosphere creates additional tension. Against the protests of the others, in the further course of the deliberation, jury No. 8 - increasingly supported by those who gradually take his side - reconstructs the alleged course of events and uncovered inconsistencies in the prosecution's evidence , which apparently was little involved Public defenders of the defendant have not been questioned.
Juror No. 8 succeeds in heated arguments to rebut the arguments and prejudices of the fellow jurors and to dissuade them from the guilty verdict because of well-founded doubts. When the second incriminating testimony and other evidence had to be questioned, the vote was eleven to one for “innocent”. Furious juror # 3 is the last to uphold the defendant's conviction. It becomes apparent that he is biased because he fell out with his son and no longer has any contact with him and is now projecting his hatred onto the accused . Ultimately, he shares the opinion of the eleven other jurors and also votes for an acquittal of the accused.
Remarkable
- This television film is the third adaptation of the script by Reginald Rose , which he originally wrote for the television series Studio One , in the context of which the first adaptation was broadcast on US television in 1954.
- Much more famous was the second film, the movie from 1957, which is Sidney Lumet 's debut in cinema , and with Henry Fonda in the leading role and as producer, attracted attention.
Further versions
- In 1997, William Friedkin turned another TV version with The 12 Jurors . Here are Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott to see in the roles of Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb.
- In 2007, at the age of 12, a Russian variation of Lumet's film was made, in which director Nikita Michalkow introduced a young Chechen man as a parricide.
Web links
- The twelve jurors in the Internet Movie Database (English)