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Fritz Bauer, un héros allemand

Original title: Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer
  • 2015
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  • 1h 45m
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Burghart Klaußner in Fritz Bauer, un héros allemand (2015)
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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.

  • Director
    • Lars Kraume
  • Writers
    • Lars Kraume
    • Olivier Guez
    • Tanzir Islam Britto
  • Stars
    • Burghart Klaußner
    • Ronald Zehrfeld
    • Lilith Stangenberg
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    • Director
      • Lars Kraume
    • Writers
      • Lars Kraume
      • Olivier Guez
      • Tanzir Islam Britto
    • Stars
      • Burghart Klaußner
      • Ronald Zehrfeld
      • Lilith Stangenberg
    • 12User reviews
    • 87Critic reviews
    • 61Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 16 wins & 10 nominations total

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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
      • Olivier Guez
      • Tanzir Islam Britto
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    7blanche-2

    the war wasn't quite over, it seems

    "The People vs. Fritz Bauer" is the story of one man's determination to bring Adolf Eichmann to Germany for trial, and the opposition to it that he faced.

    Fritz Bauer was a district attorney in Hessen, Germany, and the story begins really toward the end of his life. He is shown drowning in his bathtub at the beginning, but he is saved. In reality, that is how he died in 1968.

    Bauer was a man who did what he had to do in order to achieve his ends, and the movie makes no bones about it. He keeps quiet about the fact that he is Jewish because of his determination to enter politics. And he commits treason in order to bring Eichmann to justice. His part in that capture was not made public until 10 years after his death.

    Unfortunately for Bauer, in 1957, the government was filled with ex- Nazis and SS officers who didn't want these monsters tried and naming names. There was a lot of resistance and anti-Semitism. When Bauer learns that Eichmann is living in Argentina, he has to appeal to Massad for help - a treasonous offense if anyone found out.

    There is a subplot concerning his young associate, State Attorney Angermann, a fictional character.

    Very good movie, with wonderful acting by Burghart Klaußner as Bauer and Ronald Zehrfeld as Angermann.
    VoyagerMN1986

    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.
    7frankde-jong

    The sound of silence part 2

    Up to the present day Germany is uncomfortable with playing a major role in World politics. This uneasyness is attributable to the atrocities of the Second World War almost 80 years ago. It is hard to imagine that from mid 1950 to mid 1960, that is in the period of "das Wirtschaftswunder" just after the Second World War, Germany tried very hard to forget the past and look the other way. Only when the generation of the "baby boomers" began to ask their parents difficult questions in the second half of the sixties this period of silence game to an end.

    In mid 2010 two films were made about this period of silence. First in 2014 "Im Labyrinth des Schweigens" (Giulio Ricciarelli) and a year later "Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer" (Lars Kraume). The first film is about the preparation for the "Auschwitz trial" in the first half of the 60's. "Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer" is about the hunt for Adold Eichmann in teh second half of the 50's.

    The two films are interrelated. "Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer" can be seen as the prequel to "Das Labyrinth des Schweigens" because Fritz Bauer is in this film the boss of Johann Radmann (the main character).

    In "Das Labyrinth des Schweigens" the silence is mostly passive (looking in the other direction) and the young main character is taken by surprise by it. In "Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer" the silence is more active (consciously sparing war criminals, however not going that far and being that organized as described in "The ODESSA file" from Frederick Forsyth). Fritz Bauer is experienced enough to be very aware of this active resistance. He knows that priorities have shifted from the Second World War to the Cold war. Statements of a war criminal in court could well form a political risk for the young state of West Germany. It's no coincidence that Fritz Bauer has more confidence in the Israeli Mossad than in his own colleagues to catch Eichmann!

    Fritz Bauer is played by Burghart Klaussner, an experenced actor who played for example also in "The white ribbon" (2009, Michael Haneke). He does an excellent job. He plays Bauer partly as a sort of grumpy old man, bit like inspector Frost.
    7kosmasp

    Taking liberties

    That's metaphorically and literally speaking of course. One might also add that it can be a pun too. But while my summary line is definitely on the light side, the movie is not. And it couldn't be with the story it wants to tell. Germany has an obvious history with Nazis and the subsequent hunt for them. Or sometimes neglect in hunting them down for various reasons.

    This movie shows one of many cases and one man who was determined to bring as many to justice as possible. Despite and through all obstacles that were before him. So this is a story (thriller) that has quite a bit going for it. It's really well made and well acted too and the suspense is there, from the start until the end. There's also a lot of award talking going on about this, if that is something you're interested in
    8denis-23791

    Moving insight into German post-war history

    Excellent performance, great suspense and a moving hero who has the courage to fight against a seemingly still Nazi-controlled system 12 years after the War. Fritz Bauer fights for justice and gains a conspiratory friendship in the middle of an intolerant society.

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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
      Featured in D'après une histoire vraie: Fritz Bauer, le chasseur de nazis (2022)
    • Soundtracks
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      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

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    • Release date
      • April 13, 2016 (France)
    • 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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    • 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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