german title: Das getäuschte Gedächtnis
Memories – they are not to be kept.
Our legal system accepts just one truth. Only one version of the events remain after the judge’s verdict. Very often this final truth is based on memories.
False memories make witnesses identify suspects they never met. They generate victims of sexual abuse, when there was no crime. And they can convince innocent people that they themselves became violent criminals.
The documentary film illustrates the consequences of false memories in court along real cases.
tv-documentary, 45″
see the complete film here
authors, directors: Hendrik Löbbert, Klaus Neumann-Ege
camera: Pedram Kramer
sound: Marcel Weise
lights: Sebastian Klatt
set design: Lena Fay
a production of non fiction society
commissioned by: ZDF/3sat.