False Memories (tv-documentary, 45″, 3sat, 2016)

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.