Special tribunal - everyone fights for himself
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Special tribunal - everyone fights for himself |
| Original title | Section special |
| Country of production |
France , Italy , Germany |
| original language |
French , English , German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Costa Gavras |
| script | Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprun |
| music | Michel Legrand |
| camera | Andréas Winding |
| cut | Françoise Bonnot |
| occupation | |
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Special Tribunal - Everyone Fights For Himself is a film by Costa-Gavras , which is set in 1941 in Wehrmacht- occupied France .
action
A German officer is shot dead by a resistance fighter in the Paris Metro . The occupying power demands retaliation and the French Vichy government decides in advance obedience to sentence six innocent people to death in a sham trial . Communists and Jews who have already been sentenced to low sentences for other offenses are arbitrarily selected from the prisons and brought before a special tribunal. Followers quickly find themselves ready to help with this judicial farce. The prosecutor general, however, doubts the legality of the proceedings and begins to question.
criticism
"Political thriller by the exiled Greek Costa-Gavras [...], who this time succeeded less convincingly in unmasking an ailing system."
Awards
The film was nominated for the 1976 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film. The 1975 production was voted Top 10 Films of the Year by the National Board of Review . At the Cannes International Film Festival in 1975 Costa-Gavras was named Best Director and nominated for the Palme d'Or.
Web links
- Special Tribunal - Every man for himself in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Special Tribunal - Everyone fights for himself alone. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 28, 2017 .