"Der Fall Dorfrichter Adam/The case of judge Adam" is a theatrical essay on the relation of language and body, truth and illusion, role and identity - in theatre as well as in real life.
The director Boris Nikitin deals with the medium language and the act of speaking on stage. Together with an actor and a speak trainer and the help of Heinrich von Kleist's "The broken jug" Niktin undertakes a professions questioning: two experts of credibility negotiate their own case. They research and present their techniques and possibilities, their success and failure of the attempt of creating truthfulness by language