Cell 5 - A Reconstruction

Overview

On January 7th 2005 an asylum seeker, shackled at his hands and feet, dies in a fire in cell number five of a police station in Dessau, Germany. With "Cell 5" Mario Pfeifer reconstructs the case of Oury Jalloh's death using legal documents, testimonies, audio-visual archives, and collaborates with the forensic expert Iain Peck to reproduce an accurate fire experiment. All in an attempt to answer: How could Oury Jalloh burn to death?

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 31, 2022

Original language

German

Countries

Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America

Production

Papermoon Films,KOW

Director

Mario Pfeifer

Writer

Mario Pfeifer,Alexander Koch

Producer

Mario Pfeifer

Cinematography

Bettina Borgfeld,Helmut Fischer

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

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