Der Fall Collini – final notes

3. There is a film of Der Fall Collini, directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner, certainly worth watching. The great thing about it is that it shows the Berlin courts and lawyers. It does not show the archives in Ludwigsburg (the plot is slightly changed so that Leinen’s father does the work there). I found it odd that instead of Leinen growing up as a boarding-school friend of Hans Meyer’s grandson, he was shown as a Turkish child and Meyer as particularly admirable for treating him like a German child. The actor wasn’t Turkish either. Some scenes show the events in Italy in 1944.

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