In this German film, inmates guilty of a prison murder are put on trial before a court consisting of other inmates. The trial is given the full formal treatment it might receive in a civilian setting. The key point in this film is that these are the actual murderers admitting their actual crimes before a judges' panel consisting of their peers: actual prisoners at the same institution. Having no force of law, the trial proceeds without reaching a conclusion. That is something the viewer is asked to provide. This movie won a Silver Bear from the 1974 Berlin Film Festival.
| Release Date | November 7, 1974 | |
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| Status | Released | |
| Original Title | Im Namen des Volkes | |
| Runtime | 2h 8min | |
| Budget | — | |
| Revenue | — | |
| Language | German | |
| Original Language | German | |
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