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The title of this German murder mystery translates literally as Stronger Than Paragraphs. Paul Hartmann stars as criminal attorney Dr. Birk, at present defending an accused killer. In the course of the trial, another person is arrested for the crime on circumstantial evidence and subsequently sentenced to death. It is at this point that Birk discovers the surprising truth and is forced into a most difficult dilemma. Should Birk betray his attorney-client confidence in order to save an innocent man from execution? Staerker als Paragraphen was based on a novel by Curt I. Braun.