Nobody has mentioned Marleen Gorris's A Question of Silence (1981).  My
students are struck not only by the cultural difference in regard to the
trial but much more by the difference in regard to the prison.
Barbara Mennel

At 11:06 AM 10/17/01 -0500, Donald Larsson wrote:
>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
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>Donald F. Larsson, English Department, AH 230
>Minnesota State University
>Mankato, MN  56001
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