On January 7th 2005 an asylum seeker, shackled at his hands and feet, dies in a fire in cell number five of a police station in Dessau, Germany. With "Cell 5" Mario Pfeifer reconstructs the case of Oury Jalloh's death using legal documents, testimonies, audio-visual archives, and collaborates with the forensic expert Iain Peck to reproduce an accurate fire experiment. All in an attempt to answer: How could Oury Jalloh burn to death?
Directing | Mario Pfeifer | Director |
Production | Mario Pfeifer | Producer |
Camera | Helmut Fischer | Director of Photography |
Camera | Bettina Borgfeld | Director of Photography |
Sound | Thomas Wallmann | Sound Designer |
Sound | Kamran Sadeghi | Music |
Writing | Mario Pfeifer | Writer |
Writing | Alexander Koch | Writer |
Crew | Jonas Dahl | Post Production Supervisor |
Sound | Alex von Lengerken | Sound Recordist |