Standgericht
Film and Talk
Shortly before the end of the Second World War, three inhabitants of the Franconian village of Brettheim were executed for “undermining military morale”. In their television play Standgericht (1966), authors Maria Matray and Answald Krüger portray the judicial handling of the crime as sober courtroom drama. The film, directed by Rolf Busch, shows the failure of society and post-war justice.
Britta Hartmann, Ralf Oberndörfer and Hans Helmut Prinzler talk about the film and the media reappraisal of the Nazi dictatorship in West Germany.