Film screening and discussion
"Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer" / "People vs. Fritz Bauer"

Special screening to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Tue, 14.01.2020
6:15 PM Irish Film Institute

Dir.: Lars Kraume, colour, 105 min., Germany 2014/15

Germany, 1957. Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant colonel, responsible for the mass deportation of the Jews, is allegedly hiding in Buenos Aires. Bauer, himself Jewish, has been trying to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since his return from Danish exile. However, so far with no success due to the fierce German determination to repress its sinister past. Because of his distrust in the German justice system, Fritz Bauer contacts the Israeli secret service Mossad, and, by doing so, commits treason. Bauer is not seeking revenge for the holocaust – he is concerned with the German future.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Lars Kraume moderated by author and filmmaker Steven Benedict. 

Tickets are available here.

Presented by the German Embassy Dublin, the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland and the Goethe-Institut Irland in cooperation with the Irish Film Institute.