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  • 2015
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 4 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 4 m

Summary Germany, 1958. Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) has just recently been appointed Public Prosecutor and, like all beginners, he has to content himself with boring traffic offenses. When the journalist Thomas Gnielka (André Szymanski) causes a ruckus in the courthouse, Radmann pricks up his ears: a friend of Gnielka's identified a teache...

Directed By: Giulio Ricciarelli

Written By: Elisabeth Burghardt, Amelie Syberberg, Giulio Ricciarelli

  • 2015
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 4 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 4 m

Labyrinth of Lies

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 27 User Ratings
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Summary Germany, 1958. Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) has just recently been appointed Public Prosecutor and, like all beginners, he has to content himself with boring traffic offenses. When the journalist Thomas Gnielka (André Szymanski) causes a ruckus in the courthouse, Radmann pricks up his ears: a friend of Gnielka's identified a teache...

Directed By: Giulio Ricciarelli

Written By: Elisabeth Burghardt, Amelie Syberberg, Giulio Ricciarelli

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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74% Positive
14 Reviews
21% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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74% Positive
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21% Mixed
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5% Negative
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100
Sep 30, 2015
It’s one of the most important and revelatory films of the year.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
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Oct 8, 2015
Frehling is excellent as a rigid do-gooder who thinks he understands everything and then comes up against crimes that shake his sense of the universe. His fresh fierceness is nicely balanced by Voss, who says little but radiates wisdom.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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70
Sep 29, 2015
An intelligent and arresting fact-based drama.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 30, 2015
A lot more thought-provoking on issues of collective memory (or lack thereof) than the typical prestige picture, but it does falter dramatically in its later stretches.
By Benjamin Mercer FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 2, 2015
There’s a compelling cinematic story here, perhaps, but Ricciarelli’s movie is too diffused and scattered and, especially in its first hour, too reliant on commonplaces.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 22, 2015
Underneath its mea culpas lies a subtext that exonerates the post-Third Reich generations of its past.
By Peter Keough FULL REVIEW
25
Sep 24, 2015
Labyrinth of Lies hits every genre cliché, from the mawkish score to the no-dialogue-montage-of-tragedy. Perhaps inevitably, it’s Germany’s submission for the best foreign film Oscar.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Claussen Wöbke Putz Filmproduktion, Naked Eye Filmproduktion
Release Date Sep 30, 2015
Duration 2 h 4 m
Rating R
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Tagline In Germany, 15 years after World War II, one young man forces an entire country to face its past.
Website http://www.sonyclassics.com/labyrinthoflies
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Awards

German Film Awards
• 4 Nominations
Les Arcs European Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Athens International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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