Saturday, 28 November 2026 – 12:30
Franco Nero im Smoking bei einem Empfang 1979, Schwarzweißfoto

Venue: Filmtheater Kitzbühel · Saal B

Additional information: Tribute to Franco Nero (Honorary Award recipient) · Genre: Political thriller · Based on the novel by Ferdinand von Schirach

The Collini Case

Original title: Der Fall Collini

Berlin, 2001: pensioner Fabrizio Collini shoots the respected industrialist Hans Meyer in a hotel suite and then gives himself up to the police without resistance. The young lawyer Caspar Leinen is appointed as his public defender – and Meyer was once like a father to him. Collini refuses to talk about his motive, and in court the case seems settled. But Leinen keeps digging and uncovers a war crime committed in Tuscany in 1944 and a scandal in West Germany’s justice system. Marco Kreuzpaintner adapted Ferdinand von Schirach’s novel with Elyas M’Barek, Alexandra Maria Lara, Heiner Lauterbach and Franco Nero in the title role.

€ 12,00 incl. VAT

€ 12,00 incl. VAT

Film details

Country: Germany

Language: German

Running time: 123 min

Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner

Production: Christoph Müller, Marcel Hartges, Kerstin Schmidbauer

Cast: Elyas M’Barek, Alexandra Maria Lara, Heiner Lauterbach, Franco Nero, Manfred Zapatka, Jannis Niewöhner, Rainer Bock

Screenplay: Christian Zübert, Robert Gold, Jens-Frederik Otto

Cinematography: Jakub Bejnarowicz

Editing: Johannes Hubrich

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Photo: © Alan Light / CC BY 2.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

Venue:
Filmtheater Kitzbühel · Saal B