The Amanda Knox Story
| Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy | |
|---|---|
| Genre | True crime |
| Written by | Wendy Battles |
| Directed by | Robert Dornhelm |
| Starring |
Hayden Panettiere Marcia Gay Harden Vincent Riotta Djibril Kébé Timothy Martin Paolo Romio Amanda Stevens |
| Theme music composer | Djibril Kébé Zack Ryan |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English Italian |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Roberto Manni Randy Sutter |
| Cinematography | Gian Enrico Bianchi |
| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Pilgrim Films & Television Craig Anderson Productions Project X Productions |
| Distributor | Lifetime |
| Release | |
| Original network | Lifetime |
| Original release |
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Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy (also known as The Amanda Knox Story) is a 2011 American true crime television film. It stars Hayden Panettiere as Amanda Knox, Paolo Romio as Raffaele Sollecito, Djibril Kébé as Rudy Guede and Amanda Fernando Stevens as Meredith Kercher, and first aired on the Lifetime network on February 21, 2011.
Set between 2007 and 2009, Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy is based on the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, and the subsequent trials of the suspects, Guede, Knox and Sollecito. It was written by Wendy Battles, who has worked on scripts for the American television series CSI: NY and Law & Order, and filmed in Rome, after officials refused to grant the production team permission to shoot in Perugia. The film contains a re-enactment of the murder. In Italy, the television film has been transmitted on Canale 5, on December 3, 2012, after Amanda Knox sent a team of lawyers to Mediaset, to prevent the airing.
After its first broadcast, the film was followed by a one-hour documentary, Beyond the Headlines: Amanda Knox, which examines the Italian judicial system and includes interviews with the parents and friends of Knox, investigators, prosecutors and legal scholars.
The film depicts events that occurred after Amanda Knox moved to Perugia, Italy, in September 2007, as a foreign exchange student attending language classes at the University for Foreigners.
Knox shares a flat in a cottage with Meredith Kercher, a British student, and two Italian women, Filomena and Laura. In October, Knox meets Raffaele Sollecito, an Italian student of computer engineering, at a classical music concert, and they start dating.
On November 1, Kercher is found stabbed to death in her bedroom. Police question both Knox and Sollecito. Meanwhile, the chief prosecutor of Perugia, Giuliano Mignini, discusses the case with the coroner and forensic investigators from Rome. The coroner mentions that multiple bruises were found on Kercher's body, which could indicate a struggle between Kercher and her murderer. The prosecutor inquires whether more than one person could have been involved in the fatal attack.
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