Prejudicial treatment by the press and a bad sentence can put an innocent person in prison and a criminal can murder again.
This one and a half hour documentary duration is available in Netflix, the currently leading streaming platform for series and movies. It is directed, scripted and produced by Tánia Balló and was released in 2019. Analyzes the case of the young Rocío Wanninkhof, 18-year-old, who disappeared after being last seen in October 1999.
In recent years, these types of documentaries have gained relevance that recount events that occurred in past decades that caused great commotion and due to strange treatment by the media and poor judicial resolutions, they could not be resolved in the most effective way.
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What is “The Wanninkhof Case – Cerbantes” Netflix movie about?
The feature film tells the young woman’s crime born in Mija, an Andalusian municipality in the Province of Málaga, in Spain. She was murdered in 1999; she had disappeared, being last seen on October 9 of that year. And in this audiovisual work it is about covering the different facets that the case had throughout its media and judicial treatment.
The first ruling of justice made the ex-partner of Rocío’s mother has been convicted and imprisoned without evidence enough, which caused the The true culprit was still free and shortly after there was another similar crime. This second victim will make the truth come to light. This case opened a judicial, media, political and gender debate at that time.
Trailer for “The Wanninkhof Case – Cerbantes”, Netflix movie
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