The Incident

Year: 1990

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: English

Director: Joseph Sargent

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When a German officer held at a U.S. Army POW camp in the fictional Colorado town of Bremen is charged with murder, reluctant small‑town attorney Harmon Cobb takes the case. He must defend the Nazi prisoner amid wartime suspicion, while the town’s only doctor, played by Barnard Hughes, dies, forcing Cobb to confront the moral dilemma of representing a man viewed as devil.

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