The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) (2016)
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as Fritz Bauer
as Karl Angermann
as Victoria
as Paul Gebhardt
as Ulrich Kreidler
as Hans Jasper
as Lothar Hermann
as Staatsanwalt Jankowski
as Charlotte Angermann
as Heinz Mahler
as Chaim Cohn
as Friedrich Morlach
as Georg August Zinn
as Eberhard Fritsch
as Zvi Aharoni
as Fräulein Schütt
as Junge Frau
as Dani Levy
as Isser Harel
as Adolf Eichmann
as Zvi Aharoni
as Himself
as Himself
as Himself
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A more-or-less successful thriller that can rely for tension on the shadowy setting of a society trying to hide from itself.
Klaussner's powerful performance as Bauer ... snaps the picture back into focus.
It's a compelling portrait both of Bauer and of a fraught moment in German history.
Kraume brings muted colors and a claustrophobic, urgent energy to the procedural part of this story, while reminding us that not every moral hero looks like Captain America - in fact, like Bauer, they can be a rumpled, misanthropic mess.
Klaussner's fine performance keeps us on edge through most of the film, even though we know the result.
What "The People vs. Fritz Bauer" does so well is distill large, complicated political issues into an intimate, personal story about one man's desire to bring not only justice, but catharsis to post-war Germany, mired in a fog of complacency.
Audience Reviews for The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer)
Bauer's engagement in hunting down Nazis in the 1950s makes for a pretty interesting plot. Unfortunately, the delivery, especially by camerawork and music is sometimes closer to a TV movie than a motion picture. Same goes for some minor actors. The sleazy journalist or genderbending hooker feel entirely out of place in this story, even though they're probably based on true events. Still, a pretty interesting look at Germany at a time when the country wanted to move on but still had some leftover Nazis in their midst.
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