Film screening The General (2016)

The General © UFA Fiction © UFA Fiction

05/25/16
6:30pm

Goethe-Institut New York

This new TV production is the portrayal of one man's crusade against the whitewash of Nazi criminals under the regime of Chancellor Adenauer. Stepping into "enemy territory" whenever he leaves his office, Fritz Bauer is nonetheless unshakable in his belief that prosecuting the Holocaust's perpetrators is the only way to solidify democracy in West Germany.

Germany, 2016, 90 min

Directed by Stephan Wagner
With Ulrich Noethen, David Kross, Bernhard Schütz

Screened as part of the film series Enemy Territory – Fritz Bauer & Postwar Germany
 

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