The Case of Claus Von Bulow. An American Saga of Money and Mystery.
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Drama
| Mystery
DVD, 111 minutes
Country:
USA
| Japan
| UK
Director:
Barbet Schroeder
Writer:
Alan M. Dershowitz
| Nicholas Kazan
Producer:
Elon Dershowitz
| Michael Flynn
| Nicholas Kazan
| Edward R. Pressman
| Michael Rauch
| Diane Schneier
| Oliver Stone
Music:
Mark Isham
Plot outline
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
Cast
- Glenn Close
- Jeremy Irons
- Ron Silver
- Annabella Sciorra
- Uta Hagen
- Fisher Stevens
- Jack Gilpin
- Christine Baranski
- Stephen Mailer
- Christine Dunford
- Felicity Huffman
- Mano Singh
- Johann Carlo
- Keith Reddin
- Alan Pottinger
- Mitchell Whitfield
- Tom Wright
- Gordon Joseph Weiss
- Michael Lord
- Lisa Gay Hamilton
- Bill Camp
- JD Cullum
- Jad Mager
- Sarah Fearon
- Kristi Hundt
- Kara Emerson
- Michael Wikes
- Thomas Dorff
- Bruno Eyron
- Bernt Kuhlmann
- Redman Maxfield
- Frederick Neumann
- Conrad McLaren
- Edwin McDonough
- Brian Delate
- Dess Philpot
- Steven Black
- Kender Jones
- Haes Hill
- Dan Rea
- Leo Leyden
- Malachy McCourt
- Jessika Cardinahl
- Ericka Klein
- Joko Zohrer
- Heather Rose Dominic
- Julie Hagerty
- Mary Ann Hannon
- Constance Shulman
- Frank Stellato
- David Van Tieghem
Plots
- Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers, but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecution's case and achieve the Reversal of Fortune of the title. Written by Mark Thompson
- On 27 December 1979, the millionaire Sunny von Bülow is found in coma for the second time in her bathroom with an overdose of insulin. Her European husband Claus von Bülow is convicted for attempted murder of Sunny, but he hires the expensive Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz to revert his sentence. Dershowitz teams up with his students to collect evidences to disprove the accusation and prove the innocence of Claus. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil