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The People Vs. Fritz Bauer

Original title: Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer
  • 20152015
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  • 1h 45m
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7.1/10
5.7K
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The People Vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
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  • Biography
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The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
5.7K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Lars Kraume
  • Writers
    • Lars Kraume(screenplay)
    • Olivier Guez(screenplay)
    • Brian Cordray(Story Consultant)
  • Stars
    • Burghart Klaußner
    • Ronald Zehrfeld
    • Lilith Stangenberg
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  • Director
    • Lars Kraume
  • Writers
    • Lars Kraume(screenplay)
    • Olivier Guez(screenplay)
    • Brian Cordray(Story Consultant)
  • Stars
    • Burghart Klaußner
    • Ronald Zehrfeld
    • Lilith Stangenberg
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 11User reviews
    • 85Critic reviews
    • 61Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 16 wins & 10 nominations

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    Burghart Klaußner in The People Vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
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    Burghart Klaußner
    Burghart Klaußner
    • Fritz Bauer
    Ronald Zehrfeld
    Ronald Zehrfeld
    • Karl Angermann
    Lilith Stangenberg
    Lilith Stangenberg
    • Victoria
    Jörg Schüttauf
    Jörg Schüttauf
    • Paul Gebhardt
    Sebastian Blomberg
    Sebastian Blomberg
    • Ulrich Kreidler
    Michael Schenk
    • Adolf Eichmann
    Rüdiger Klink
    • Heinz Mahler
    Laura Tonke
    Laura Tonke
    • Fräulein Schütt
    Götz Schubert
    Götz Schubert
    • Georg August Zinn
    Paulus Manker
    Paulus Manker
    • Friedrich Morlach
    Cornelia Gröschel
    Cornelia Gröschel
    • Charlotte Angermann
    Tilo Werner
    • Isser Harel
    Dani Levy
    Dani Levy
    • Chaim Cohn
    Robert Atzorn
    Robert Atzorn
    • Hans Jasper
    Andrej Kaminsky
    • Polizeibeamter
    Carolin Stähler
    • Frau Kreidler
    Stefan Gebelhoff
    • Willem Sassen
    Pierre Shrady
    Pierre Shrady
    • Eberhard Fritsch
    • Director
      • Lars Kraume
    • Writers
      • Lars Kraume(screenplay)
      • Olivier Guez(screenplay)
      • Brian Cordray(Story Consultant)
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    • Trivia
      The later work of the real Fritz Bauer contributed to the creation of an independent, democratic justice system in West Germany, as well as to the prosecution of Nazi war criminals and the reform of the criminal law and penal systems.
    • Goofs
      Fritz Bauer is shown checking into the American colony hotel to meet the Mossad. In 1957, that hotel was under Jordanian rule, and totally inaccessible to Israelis.
    • Connections
      Referenced in ZDF Magazin Royale: Das Problem der deutschen Filmlandschaft (2021)
    • Soundtracks
      Inkognito
      Performed by Lilith Stangenberg

      Interpreted by Julian Maas/ Christoph Kaiser (as Christoph M. Kaiser) /Lilith Stangenberg

      Composed by Julian Maas / Christoph Kaiser / Ali Zuckowski

      Music publishers: Oblique Music + Ediaon Songreiter (UMP)

      © 2015 Colosseum Music Entertainment GmbH

    User reviews11

    Review
    Top review
    Mostly good film, infected though with one or two gross misrepresentations
    In general, the story of Eichmann is a seminal story to understanding the 20th century, and the depth of evil in the Nazi state. AS ardent noted the banality of Eichmann's evil, especially the cold bureaucratic elements the machine he helped create to murders of innocents by the millions is a truly instructive warning.

    In addition to Ardent, faithful films in German and in English of the Wannsee conference, as well as Wiesenthal relentless and heroic should be read or seen by all.

    This film however, just can't help but throw in Washington and the CIA on several occasions. The filmmakers just have to deploy the time worn European crutch of raising an Americans bogeyman and it ruins the film's claim to veracity. In fact, the Us with all its flaws had nothing to do with the creation and enabling of Eichmann, and in fact Eichmann was a very German and European creation.

    In 2006 stories started to come out that the W. German intelligence and the CIA had known he was in Argentina. In fact subsequent to that in 2011 that claim was shown false. The claim they know he was there is like the claim FDR knew an attack would be at pearl harbor. Pearl was listed, but so were many other places. Same with Eichmann and his location., there was intelligence he was in a dozen places. In fact Guy Walters blows away this tin foil hat conspiracy theory repeated in the film back in 2001.:

    blogs. telegraph.co.uk/ news/ guywalters/ 100071101/ the-west- Germans -and-the- Americans -really-did- not -know-where- eichmann-was/

    (remove spaces in the URL as IMDb was rejecting it as too long)

    The idea that the CIA or the US in anyway blocked the W. Germans or Israeli on Eichmann is also simply bogus. What the now largely released documentation of the period shows is the US was more focused and concerned with reducing the international isolation of Israel, and while Eichmann's abduction was utterly just, it was illegal under international law, and in fact Israel was excoriated for the abduction in the Security council. In fact the abduction of Eichmann had realty increased the influence of the nationalist, anti Semite and deeply anti American Tacuara Nationalist Movement. Raising concerns about that is not some smoking gun of US or CIA complicity.

    It is a shame to see an otherwise good film touching an important part of the history of a European and German created holocaust and aftermath flawed by worn and bogus misrepresentation and blame shifting.
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    • VoyagerMN1986
    • Mar 10, 2016

    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 1, 2015 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Official site
      • Official site (Germany)
    • Languages
      • German
      • English
      • Yiddish
      • Spanish
      • French
    • Also known as
      • The People vs. Fritz Bauer
    • Filming locations
      • Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Zero One Film
      • Terz Film
      • Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $288,483
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $33,781
      • Aug 21, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,083,973
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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