Civil Courage

Civil Courage

Drama | Jan. 27, 2010

For almost 30 years, bookseller Jordan has lived and worked in a neighborhood in Berlin that has become a social hotbed. As Jordan witnesses a teenager brutally beating up an older man, he intervenes and files a complaint - with unimaginable consequences ... Director Dror Zahavi ("Everything for my father", "My life - Marcel Reich-Ranicki") succeeded after a screenplay by Jürgen Werner ("Tatort - With a steady hand", "Schimanski - layer in the pit", also with Götz George) an atmospherically tightly staged and outstandingly played portrait of a so-called problem district. Here nothing is glossed over, but instead the reality shown and the powerlessness of our judicial system mercilessly layed bare. A highlight of 2010!

Civil Courage

Drama | Jan. 27, 2010

Civil Courage
For almost 30 years, bookseller Jordan has lived and worked in a neighborhood in Berlin that has become a social hotbed. As Jordan witnesses a teenager brutally beating up an older man, he intervenes and files a complaint - with unimaginable consequences ... Director Dror Zahavi ("Everything for my father", "My life - Marcel Reich-Ranicki") succeeded after a screenplay by Jürgen Werner ("Tatort - With a steady hand", "Schimanski - layer in the pit", also with Götz George) an atmospherically tightly staged and outstandingly played portrait of a so-called problem district. Here nothing is glossed over, but instead the reality shown and the powerlessness of our judicial system mercilessly layed bare. A highlight of 2010!
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, ARD, Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH
Original title Zivilcourage
Directors Dror Zahavi
Writers Jürgen Werner

Cast

Götz George

as Peter Jordan

Carolyn Genzkow

as Jessica

Arnel Taci

as Afrim Lima

Thomas Arnold

as Ulrich Pösken

Marko Mandić

as Dalmat Lima

Hansjürgen Hürrig

as Klaus Böhringer

Cornelia Schmaus

as Katja Böhringer

Kai Ivo Baulitz

as Stefan Keller

Maria Simon

as Monika Keller

Sabine Orléans

as Jessicas Mutter