The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)

Original title

Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer

Directed by

Lars Kraume

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

12

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 219 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German Jewish prosecutor works to bring former Nazi planner Adolf Eichmann to justice after World War II. The film follows his efforts to capture Eichmann.

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What happens

The People vs. Fritz Bauer (German: Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer) is a 2015 German biographical drama film directed by Lars Kraume, chronicling the German Jewish prosecutor Fritz Bauer's post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film won the awards for Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, and three more at Deutscher Filmpreis (″Lola″) 2016. The film also won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival 36. It was listed as one of eight films that could be the German submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not selected. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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