Jean-Pierre Geuens requests: > does anyone have suggestions for foreign (european, soviet, asian, etc.) > movies containing a scene of a trial whose standards are altogether > different from what we are accustomed to? I don't know if these all fit what you're looking for, but here are some possibilities: Costa-Gavras' THE CONFESSION Wajda's DANTON BREAKER MORANT A CRY IN THE DARK Visconti's THE STRANGER (from Camus' novel) A DRY WHITE SEASON IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER Chabrol's UNE AFFAIRE DES FEMMES THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE EIGHT O'CLOCK WALK Ken Russell's THE DEVILS the various films about Joan of Arc (Dreyer, Bresson, Besson, Preminger) the various films about Oscar Wilde (with Peter Finch, Robert Morley, Stephen Fry) THE WINSLOW BOY (both versions) Dreyer's DAY OF WRATH Chaplin's MONSIEUR VERDOUX Kurowsawa's I LIVE IN FEAR (about a commitment proceeding, but a trial nonetheless) the gangsters' trial of the murderer in Lang's M Pabst's version of THE THREEPENNY OPERA As a contrast in propaganda: the Nazi film JEW SUSS As contemporary American contrasts: BROKEDOWN PALACE RETURN TO PARADISE Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson, English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite