Director and co-writer Lars Kraume tells the story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to...
Director and co-writer Lars Kraume tells the story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
"In 1957, the Hessian 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, tries to take crimes from the Third Reich to court, ever since he returned from Danish exile. So far, without success, due of 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 bend [sic] on revenge for the holocaust - he is concerned with the German future." (Berlin International Film Festival)
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"By focusing on his subject's unwavering moral certainty, Kraume denies his ethical complexity and diminishes the difficulties of his challenging stance to educate the society that wanted him dead."
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Village Voice
Village Voice"Though relatively conservative in its approach, Lars Kraume's teleplay-style treatment of a still-touchy subject has the nerve to name names, implicating everyone from chancellor Konrad Adenauer to Mercedes-Benz."
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Variety
Variety"From start to finish, it's absorbing."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"A solid, persuasively-acted account of the real-life mission to bring a Nazi war criminal to justice."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"Director Lars Kraume's mounting of this tale, while capable enough, is also rather staid and conventional."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Though blessed with a spectacular true story and character to work from, director and co-screenwriter Lars Kraume fails to breathe much life into the stuffy, overly complex enumeration of the historical facts that led to Eichmann's arrest."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Klaussner's powerful performance as Bauer ... snaps the picture back into focus."
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Boston Globe
Boston GlobeThe People vs. Fritz Bauer | Details
- Rating
- M, Sex scenes & suicide refences
- Runtime
- 105
- Genre
- Drama, Thriller, True Story & Biography
- Country of origin
- Germany
