DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER

THE PEOPLE V.S. FRITZ BAUER

By Lars KRAUME

CINÉART NETHERLANDS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, NETHERLANDS, Benelux

Drama - Completed 2015

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

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2015
Audience Award
Toronto - TIFF 2015
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama, Jewish, Biography
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 105 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Lars KRAUME
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/54AE-7581-AF43-84E6-DB20-I
    • Synopsis
    • 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 on revenge for the holocaust - he is concerned with the German future.