(Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer)
Directed by Lars Kraume , Germany, 2015, 105 minutes. With: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg, Sebastian Blomberg.
In German with English subtitles.
Few figures encapsulate the conflicted character of postwar Germany better than Fritz Bauer, the Attorney General who was instrumental in bringing the elusive Adolph Eichmann to trial in Israel. The People vs. Fritz Bauer is both a portrait of this complex man and a riveting historical thriller that chronicles the Herculean efforts and tremendous risks undertaken to apprehend the chief engineer of the Nazis' Final Solution. – Toronto International Film Festival
“A solid, persuasively-acted account of the real-life mission to bring a Nazi war criminal to justice (…) sober, handsomely mounted picture.” – Screen Daily
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