Judgment in Berlin

Sean Penn: witness at trial. Sean Penn is the son of Leo Penn, who directed this film.

The year of the trial is supposed to be around 1973 (date of Sigrid Radke's coerced confession), but the film was shot in contemporary Germany. In a street scene, Gunther X (Sean Penn) walks by a Berlin electronic shop advertising compact disk players (introduced in the early 1980's). Also, Judge Stern refers to the Nurenburg Trials as having occurred "45 years ago", which would refer to the present as around 1990.

Depending on the version of the movie, the aircraft involved in the hijacking is either a LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 767 or an unmarked Tupolev Tu-134. (The actual hijacking in 1978 involved a LOT Polish Airlines Tu-134, and the airline did not acquire the 767 until 1989.)

Features The Blue Angel (1930)