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The People vs. Fritz Bauer

Original title: Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer

2015 · 1h 45m

Directed by Lars Kraume

6.8

TMDB audience score
221 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason — yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.

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Cast

  • Burghart Klaußner
    Fritz Bauer

  • Ronald Zehrfeld
    Karl Angermann

  • Sebastian Blomberg
    Ulrich Kreidler

  • Jörg Schüttauf
    Paul Gebhardt

  • Lilith Stangenberg
    Victoria

  • Laura Tonke
    Ms. Schütt

  • Götz Schubert
    Georg-August Zinn

  • Cornelia Gröschel
    Charlotte Angermann

  • Robert Atzorn
    Charlottes Father

  • Matthias Weidenhöfer
    Zvi Aharoni

  • Rüdiger Klink
    Heinz Mahler

  • Paulus Manker
    Friedrich Morlach

  • Michael Schenk
    Adolf Eichmann

  • Tilo Werner
    Isser Harel

  • Dani Levy
    Chaim Cohn

  • Jochen Kolenda
    Richter

  • Thomas Kügel
    Dr. Erwin Schüle

  • Christopher Buchholz
    Lothar Hermann