S.u Rai 3 airs at 9.20pm The Collini case with Franco Nero. It is a legal–thriller German directed by Marco Kreuzpainter (director of He’s back to whom Luca Miniero remakes for the remake I’m back) and taken from the homonymous bestseller by Ferdinand von Schirachwhich however concerns us closely.
In fact, he tells of an Italian worker for 35 years in Germany who, recently retired, kills for no apparent reason a well-known wealthy industrialist. The mystery behind the crime refers directly to the writer’s family origins.
The Collini case: the plot
The film focuses on the story of Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero), a retired Italian worker who has lived in Germany for many years and who is accused of having shot dead Hans Meyera well-known 85-year-old industrialist. But why would Fabrizio have killed Meyer?
We are in 2001. To defend the man in the courtroom of Berlin the young lawyer Caspar Leinen (Elyas M’Barek), at his first trial. It appears to be a hopeless case with the accused confessed, but Leinen investigating he discovers that the victim was the grandfather of a friend of his in high school.
Franco Nero. (Film Verleih).
Although the superiors push him to stay in his place, the lawyer delves into the past of Meyer and discovers a dark episode that happened in Italy during the Second World War, which sees the spotless industrialist as its protagonist. In short, nothing is as it seems and the cause will bring to light something unexpected that involves the history of humanity.
A thriller about the atrocities of Nazism
The author de The Collini case (published by Longanesi) Ferdinand von Schirach he brings a piece of his personal history into the novel, and into the film as well. In fact, her surname is linked to that of her grandfather Baldur von Schirachat the head of the Hitler Youth: was sentenced to trial Nuremberg twenty years in prison for crimes against humanity.
The character of Hans Meyer partly refers to the figure of the grandfather of Ferdinand.
Elyas M’Barek. (Film Verleih).
He was a cultured and educated mana so-called person of culture who, however, orchestrates the deportation of thousands of Jews from the central station in Vienna and at the age of 18 joins the Nazi party. Ferdinand von Schirach learns the truth about grandfather at the age of 12 years, straight from the history book.
A piece of Italy and Tuscany The Collini case
In addition to the Italian protagonist of the film, played by ours Franco Nerothere is another piece of Italy in German The Collini case.
(Film Verleih).
Mostly the action takes place in Germany, but in the continuos flashback that tell the past of the man under investigation, we find the very young Leonardo Orsoliniin the role of little Fabrizio, and the Tuscan countryside during the occupation. It is precisely here that you come into contact with the dark side of Hans Meyer.
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