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THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER (DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, TAIWAN
Local title : 大審判家  ;  Release date : Aug 19, 2016
 
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Completed - GERMAN, ENGLISH, YIDDISH - Drama - 105 minutes

Log Line

Sometimes the only way to save your country is to betray it.

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Lars KRAUME
Writer(s) : Lars KRAUME, Olivier GUEZ
Cast : Burghart KLAUSSNER, Ronald ZEHRFELD, Lilith STANGENBERG

Producer(s) : Thomas KUFUS (zero one film GmbH)

Synopsis

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.

Production

Country(ies) : GERMANY

AUSTRALIA JIFF DISTRIBUTI
AUSTRIA THIMFILM GMBH
BELGIUM Apr 20, 2016 CINÉART BELGIUM
GERMANY Oct 01, 2015 ALAMODE FILMDIS
HUNGARY Nov 24, 2016 CIRKO FILM KFT.
ISRAEL LEV CINEMAS LTD
ITALY Apr 21, 2016 CINEMA SRL
JAPAN NEW SELECT CO.
NETHERLAND Apr 28, 2016 CINÉART NETHERL
NORWAY FILM & KINO
POLAND AURORA FILMS (P
PORTUGAL Jun 30, 2016 FILMS4YOU
SPAIN CARAMEL FILMS S
SWITZERLAN Oct 01, 2015 LOOK NOW! FILMD
TAIWAN Aug 19, 2016 ENCORE FILM CO.


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Festivals and Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2015 Contemporary World Cinema
Ventana Sur 2015 European Cinema


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