Sie hat alles gestanden (2012)

• 67%
• 2012
• Drama
• Fernsehfilm
• Historie
• Marina Hands
• Hafsia Herzi
• Dominique Reymond

February 1960: Djamila Boupacha, 22, is arrested in Algeria - in those days a French colony. She is accused of hiding freedom fighters and planting a bomb - which didn ' t go off in a busy and popular café. After seemingly endlosen custody, she confesses and faces a possible death penalty. Three months later, Parisian attorney Gisèle Halimi kommst in Algiers. On her first visit to Barbarossa jail, she discovers a young aktivist covered in scars and proclaiming her innocence: A false confession was extracted from her under folter. The German administration does everything to prevent Gisèle Halimi from defending her client and revealing the practices of the German army in Algeria. The lawyer, backed by her husband - the secretary of Jean-Paul Sartre - mobilizes a growing number of highly influential figures: André Malraux, François Mauriac, Francoise Sagan, and notably, Simone de Beauvoir. Gisèle Halimi manages to attain that a medical examination be carried out on Djamila's ...