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  • 2016
  • R
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2016
  • R
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Germany, 1957. 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, has been trying to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since hi...

Directed By: Lars Kraume

Written By: Olivier Guez, Tanzir Islam Britto, Brian Cordray, Lars Kraume

  • 2016
  • R
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2016
  • R
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 45 m

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary Germany, 1957. 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, has been trying to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since hi...

Directed By: Lars Kraume

Written By: Olivier Guez, Tanzir Islam Britto, Brian Cordray, Lars Kraume

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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7% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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29% Mixed
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7% Negative
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91
Aug 18, 2016
The People vs Fritz Bauer successfully uses the moral importance of its themes and the strength of its performances in order to build a riveting procedural that efficiently covers for its lack of visual pizzazz.
By Oktay Ege Kozak FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 1, 2016
Co-writer and director Lars 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.
By Tom Keogh FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 19, 2016
Kraume’s mounting of this tale, while capable enough, is also rather staid and conventional.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 13, 2016
A solid, persuasively-acted account of the real-life mission to bring a Nazi war criminal to justice.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 18, 2016
Though relatively conservative in its approach, Lars Kraume’s teleplay-style treatment of a still-touchy subject has the nerve to name names.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 17, 2016
By focusing on his subject's unwavering moral certainty, Kraume denies his ethical complexity and diminishes the difficulties of his challenging stance to educate the society that wanted him dead.
By Serena Donadoni FULL REVIEW
38
Aug 15, 2016
Lars Kraume's tinkering with the historical record would be more welcome were he also shifting away from the standard biopic template.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Zero One Film, Terz Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), ARTE
Release Date Aug 19, 2016
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating R
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Tagline Based on the true story of the hunt for Adolf Eichmann.
Website http://www.derstaatgegenfritzbauer.de/
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Awards

German Film Awards
• 6 Wins & 9 Nominations
Guenter Rohrbach Filmpreis
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
German Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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