# The Allegation (2021)

> A German miniseries dramatizing the Worms Trials, a 1990s legal scandal, as a gripping courtroom drama about social media hysteria and the hunger for revenge.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/112468

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 7
- Episode runtime: 33 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Jan Ehlert, Oliver Berben, Ferdinand von Schirach
- Network: RTL+
- Cast: Peter Kurth, Narges Rashidi, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Désirée Nosbusch, Michael Pink, Katharina M. Schubert, Julika Jenkins, Hans-Heinrich Hardt
- TMDB rating: 7.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13116888/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: none
- Tone: tense, sober, morally troubled, gripping, harrowing

## Synopsis

The Allegation (2021) is a German national-television courtroom drama miniseries created by Jan Ehlert, Oliver Berben and Ferdinand von Schirach for RTL+. Adapted from Schirach's bestselling work, it transports the Worms Trials, a 1990s German legal scandal involving twenty-five defendants and roughly three hundred trial days, into the present day. Rechtanwalt Dr. Richard Schlesinger (Peter Kurth) sits at the center of a case where an allegation spreads faster than any evidence can be tested. Azra (Narges Rashidi), Staatsanwalt Cordelis (Sebastian Urzendowsky) and Hauptkommissarin Laubach (Désirée Nosbusch) pull the story across courtrooms, police offices and newsrooms, while Kinderschützerin Ina Reuth (Katharina M. Schubert) and Kinderarzt Dr. Liessen (Falk Rockstroh) represent the children at the heart of the charges. The engine is the friction between due process and public fury, as each episode tests whether a defense can survive an online crowd that has already delivered its verdict. Across seven episodes of about thirty-three minutes each, the miniseries is a single continuing legal narrative rather than a case of the week. Its tone is tense, sober and morally troubled, with a documentary-like seriousness about how hysteria distorts justice. Fans of The Staircase, Making a Murderer and The Trial of the Chicago 7 will find resonance in its true-crime courtroom texture and its interest in institutional failure.

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