Director: Philip Scheffner | Germany 2012 | 106 min

An unfair trial is reviewed 20 years later. Literally. Two Romanian men were found murdered in 1992 in Northern Germany - shot, while they were on their way over the border to the EU, by local hunters who claimed to have mistaken them for wild boars. The hunters were acquitted, the case was closed, and the bereaved families were never informed about the outcome of the trial. But now, the past is returning and the official truth about what actually happened is being revised. The method is simple: everyone is allowed to revise their own statements. For some, nothing has changed, for some others, their conscience is finally allowed to liberate some of what has been suppressed. Was it true that it is possible to confuse human beings with wild boar that day? And why were the families of those killed not informed? With Philip Scheffner's cinematic trial, justice is finally done, when all the parties - for the first time - are being heard. "Revision" is a harrowing and intense film, which above all raises the urgent question: are truth and morality really relative terms? And what if they are not?
Revision (Germany, 2012, 106 min.)
Director: Philip Scheffner. Script: Merle Kröger & Philip Scheffner. Camera: Bernd Meiners. Sound: Volker Zeigermann & Pascal Capitolin. Edit: Philip Scheffner. Producer: Merle Kröger. Production: Pong, Blinker, Worklights.
with English Subtitles.
After the screening on 7 November there will be a discussion between the director Philip Scheffner and Amnesty's legal consultant Claus Juul. Moderator: Helle Jakobsen (campaing coordinator of Amnesty's anti-discrimination programme).
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