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The Lawyers (2009) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2009 · 92 mins · German
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- Directed by
- Birgit Schulz
- Starring
- Horst Mahler, Otto Schily, Hans-Christian Ströbele
In the early 1970s, lawyers Otto Schily and Hans‑Christian Ströbele were part of West Germany’s left‑wing extraparliamentary opposition, even defending militant Horst Mahler. They shared a goal of creating a new republic, denouncing the Federal Republic as oppressive and a U.S. vassal. Later, Schily became a conservative interior minister, Ströbele a Green Party Bundestag member, while Mahler re‑entered legal trouble for extremist right‑wing actions.
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