Crime – Die Technik des Verbrechens: "Just Mercy"

To accompany the Technoseum exhibition "Crime—The Technology of Crime," the first installment in a film series is the legal drama "Just Mercy," based on true events—a film about structural racism in the United States. 
Information on the film series: https://cinema-quadrat.de/filmreihen-crime/ – Information on the exhibition: https://www.technoseum.de/crime/

JUST MERCY

USA 2019. Dir.: Destin Daniel Cretton. Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Rafe Spall, Tim Blake Nelson. 137 min. English with German subtitles. FSK: 12

Alabama, late 1980s: Young African American attorney Bryan Stevenson founds the Equal Justice Initiative to defend the wrongfully convicted—mostly underprivileged people, mostly Black. His first case is spectacular: Walter McMillan had been sentenced to death for murder just a few years earlier, based on a single contradictory witness statement and despite having an alibi backed by 20 witnesses…
JUST MERCY is a courtroom drama that exposes the deep-seated racist structures in the American justice system and American society: “As a Black man, you are constantly suspected, accused, viewed with suspicion, found guilty, and even feared. The burden that Black people have to bear as a result can only be understood if we thoroughly examine the history of racial injustice,” says Bryan Stevenson, whose autobiography the film is based on.
Accompanying the Technoseum exhibition “Crime – The Technology of Crime” (June 25, 2026, through June 27, 2027), “The Pink Panther” will also be shown in September and “M – A City Searches for a Murderer” in December.

Introduction: Dr. Anne Mahn, project director of the “Crime” exhibition at the Technoseum