The People vs. Fritz Bauer, a film by Lars Kraume
Featured at the Toronto International Film Festival 2015 – Locarno International Film Festival 2015 – London Film Festival 2015 – Berlin International Film Festival 2015
Winner of 6 German Film Awards (LOLA AWARDS) including: Best Film – Best Director – Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) – Best Screenplay BURGHART KLAUSSNER – RONALD ZEHRFELD – LILITH STANGENBERG – Jrg Schttauf – SEBASTIAN BLOMBERG Run time: 105 minutes – 2.35 : 1 Germany ? German with English sub
It is Germany, 1957.
Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant colonel, responsible for the mass deportation of the Jews, is allegedly hiding in Buenos Aires. Bauer, himself Jewish, has been trying to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since his return from Danish exile. However, with no success so far due to 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 seeking revenge for the Holocaust he is concerned with the German future.
Release Dates
COUNTRY – DATE – DETAILS
- Switzerland Aug 7, 2015 (Locarno Film Festival)
- Canada Sep 13, 2015 (Toronto International Film Festival)
- Germany Oct 1, 2015
- United Kingdom Oct 11, 2015 (London Film Festival)
- Germany Feb 17, 2016 (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Argentina Mar 3, 2016
- Israel Mar 31, 2016
- France Apr 13, 2016
- Italy Apr 28, 2016
- Netherlands Apr 28, 2016
- Spain Apr 29, 2016 (limited)
- United States May 1, 2016 (Montclair Film Festival)
- Uruguay May 5, 2016
- Spain May 13, 2016
- United States Jun 17, 2016 (Provincetown International Film Festival)
- Portugal Jun 30, 2016
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Aug 18, 2016 (Sarajevo Film Festival)
- United States Aug 19, 2016 (limited)
- Norway Sep 2, 2016
Also Known As (AKA)
NAME – COUNTRIES
- Agenda secreta Argentina | Uruguay (original subtitled version)
- Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer Germany | International
- Die Heimatlosen/Fritz Bauer International (working title)
- El caso Fritz Bauer Spain
- Fritz Bauer kontra panstwo Poland
- Fritz Bauer, un hros allemand France
- Fritz Bauer: Agenda Secreta Portugal
- Ha’emet shel Fritz Bauer Israel (Hebrew title)
- Jakten p Adolf Eichmann Norway
- Lo Stato contro Fritz Bauer Italy
- The People vs. Fritz Bauer World-wide (English title)
