Tomorrow in Alabama

Movie
Original title	Tomorrow in Alabama
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1984
length	123 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Norbert Kückelmann
script	Norbert Kückelmann, Thomas Petz , Dagmar Kekulé
production	Norbert Kückelmann
music	Markus Urchs
camera	Jürgen Juerges
cut	Siegrun hunter
occupation
Maximilian Schell as a Landau lawyer Lena Stolze as Jessica Kranz Robert Aldini as Werner Kranz Wolfgang Kieling as Reporter Watergate Kathrin Ackermann as judge Manfred Rendl as a public prosecutor Reinhard Hauff as Holm Jörg Hube as Commissioner Sommer Klaus Höhne as bailiff Robert Atzorn as senior public prosecutor Dagobert Lindlau as a reporter at press conference

Morgen in Alabama is a German feature film from 1984.

action

Werner Kranz is a young trainee. He assassinated a minister. Lawyer Landau is entrusted with the case as public defender. A terrorist background is suspected, but Kranz claims to be a lone perpetrator and refuses to work with Landau. Landau tries to find out more about the case through his own investigation. He has the well-founded assumption that Kranz must have had right-wing extremists behind his act. However, he does not find any evidence that would be tenable in court. Kranz is eventually acquitted and commits another assassination attempt in which he is killed.

background

Director and screenwriter Kückelmann is a lawyer himself and his earlier films were also set in the judicial environment. The film Morgen in Alabama was made against the background of the bomb attack at the Munich Oktoberfest in 1980. The film was intended to warn against a right-wing radicalism that, in the opinion of the makers, was becoming more and more comprehensive.

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film : attempt of a German political thriller, which differentiated and knowledgeably portrays the relationship between individual guilt and the state justice system and the insufficient means of obtaining and providing evidence. The endeavor of the film to prepare its theses in a cinematic way, however, turns out to be clumsy and laden with clichés. Above all, the connection between the hero's professional and private problems seems overloaded and makes the subject less explosive.

Awards

The film took part in the 1984 Berlinale competition and won a Silver Bear . In 1984 he also received the German Silver Film Award .

Web links

• Morning in Alabama in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Tomorrow in Alabama at Filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tomorrow in Alabama. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 28, 2017 .