UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15460856
Format:
1 DVD-Video (ca. 88 min)
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1.76:1 ; 16:9 Widescreen
Content:
Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent. (IMDb)
Content:
The startling statistics from Mexico tell their own story Ń 95% of trials there result in convictions. A highly efficient police force? No. The entire justice system is based on the idea that if you are picked up for a crime, you did it, and it's up to you to prove your innocence in a system that makes that as difficult as possible. When stallholder Jose Antonio Zuniga was sentenced to 20 years for a murder he knew nothing about on the strength of one eyewitness (and he had 3 others to state he was elsewhere at the time), his friends and family secured the help of two Mexican lawyers from the US to put forward an appeal. Amazingly, they were allowed to film both his life inside the prison, where he shared a cell with 19 others, and the retrial itself.This footage provides the raw material for the film, which is far more than just a documentary account of a tremendous injustice, but an emotionally engaging and at times poetic experience, at once a horrifying glimpse into a world of banal corruption, where evil is done as much by omission as real intent (and is in a way all the more horrific for that), and a tribute to resilience and determination, and to the strength of ordinary people. And more importantly for Jose Antonio, the footage also provided proof of the corruption of the appeal process itself. (Jigsaw Lounge, Sheila Seacroft)
Note:
Orig.: Mexiko, 2008
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Untertitel: englisch, französisch
Language:
Spanish
Keywords:
Mexiko
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Justiz
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Unschuldiger
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Fehlurteil
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Mexiko
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Justiz
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Revisionsgericht
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Korruption
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Film
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Erlebnisbericht
