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ACCUSED

LUCIA DE B.

By Paula VAN DER OEST

Drama - Completed 2014

Based on the true story of Lucia de Berk, ACCUSED is an intense drama on the biggest miscarriage of justice in Dutch history.

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- DUTCH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 97 mn
- Director(s)
- Paula VAN DER OEST
- Writer(s)
- Moniek KRAMER, Tijs VAN MARLE
- Cast
- Ariane SCHLUTER, Sallie HARMSEN, Barry ATSMA, Fedja VAN HUÊT, Annet MALHERBE
- Producer(s)
- Reinier SELEN (Rinkel Film), Gemma DERKSEN (NCRV), Klara BJÖRK (Filmkreatörerna)
- Synopsis
- Based on a true story.
  
  Nurse Lucia (40) has been present at one inexplicable death too many, and the hospital alerts the police. Assistant District Attorney Judith (28), driven by ambition and genuinely outraged, gets stuck in and Lucia is sentenced to life in prison. But something keeps troubling Judith, and she discovers inconsistencies in witness statements, and even the suppression of lab evidence. Ignored by her superiors, Judith teams up with Lucia’s lawyer, but at every appeal the original guilty verdict is confirmed. Things look bleak until they get the media involved and the biggest miscarriage of justice in Dutch history is finally reversed.