Die Anwälte

Three political biographies, one German story. At the beginning of the 1970s, three left-wing lawyers fought against the FRG as a restrictive state. In court, they defend people who are considered enemies of the state: Otto Schily, Hans-Christian Ströbele and Horst Mahler. Today, one is a former Federal Minister of the Interior, the second the left-wing conscience of the Greens, the third a right-wing extremist convicted as a Holocaust denier...

In 'Die Anwälte - Eine deutsche Geschichte' (2009), the three lawyers talk to director Birgit Schulz about the time when they defended the defendants of the RAF faction in court, about their ideals, their dreams of that time and what became of them. And each of the three believes that they have remained true to themselves.