The People Vs. Fritz Bauer
Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer
2015, Film, 105 min, Biography, Drama, Thriller, German, Germany, MoviePedia score 68
It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason — yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.
Directed by Lars Kraume
Cast
- Burghart Klaußner as Fritz Bauer
- Ronald Zehrfeld as Karl Angermann
- Lilith Stangenberg as Victoria
- Jörg Schüttauf as Paul Gebhardt
- Sebastian Blomberg as Ulrich Kreidler
- Michael Schenk as Adolf Eichmann
- Rüdiger Klink as Heinz Mahler
- Laura Tonke as Fräulein Schütt
- Götz Schubert as Georg August Zinn
- Paulus Manker as Friedrich Morlach
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