L'Affaire Maurizius (1954, Eng subs). Anton Walbrook, D. Gélin, Ch. Vanel

Directed by Julien Duvivier, after Jakob Wassermann's novel. "Hearing about a court case that his dad was involved in 2 years before he was born, Etzel Andergast discovers that his dad was one of the lawyers in the "Maurizius affair" that was a major case which led to Léonard Maurizius being put in jail for the murder of his wife Elisabeth. Opening up the old casebooks and tracking down some of the witnesses, Etzel begins to have grave doubts about the evidence shown to the jury, as he goes in search of a mysterious figure at the centre of the case: Grégoire Waremme." (morrison-dylan-fan on IMDb).