Over four episodes, the documentary series tells stories of spectacular miscarriages of justice and judicial scandals in Germany in the last 50 years. The films reconstruct the crimes and try to discover how the wrongful convictions came about and how the real sequence of events was distorted. The fate of those who were wrongly sentenced by the judiciary is also considered.

Written and directed by Dirk Blumenthal, Manfred Uhlig, Raymond Ley, Gunther Scholz Director of photography Christian Girardet, Mathias Brünighaus, Axel Brandt Edited by Jochen C. Müller Production manager Jörg Kunkel Executive producer Andreas Knoblauch Producer Dr. Thomas Schuhbauer Editorial department Rainer Markgraf und Gerhard Widmer Head of production Ulrich Lenze Produced for NDR und Radio Bremen Shooting period December 2002 to September 2003 : 03.01.-24.01.2005, ARD » back