Diagonaldi Very well executed

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Kirpianuscus At first sigh, another confrontation against past. correct, well acted, impecable script, wise thriller. in essence, a film about politic. its rules and shadow and solutions. more important, a film about duty. and patriotism. and the price for a option defining a life. the delicate equilibrium is the lead virtue of this admirable film . remarkable for the fine portraits and for the exploration of the birth of shadows. a film about chavalery in old sense. and about vulnerabilities as basic ingredient of challenges. short, a biographic film who, for its splendid manner to use the elements of story, propose profound senses of an event, reality and the right form of duty assume.

Larry Silverstein This deliberately paced but important film highlights the severe frustrations of Attorney General Fritz Bauer, as he attempts to prosecute former Nazis in his own country of Germany, in the late 1950's and early 60's. Many of the German people do not want to look back at the horrors that occurred in their country a decade before, instead wanting to move forward and enjoy an economic boom and democracy. Also, Bauer comes up against geopolitical resistance at the highest levels across the globe, as many nations to do want to aggressively pursue ex-Nazis for their own individual reasons.Bauer is ably portrayed by Burghart Klaussner, and his efforts, along with State Attorney Karl Angermann (Ronald Zehrfeld), will eventually lead to the capture, in Argentina, of the former high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann, and his subsequent trial and execution in Israel. Also, Bauer's efforts would lead to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials, where additional ex-Nazis were tried and sentenced.I might mention that some of the same ground was covered in the fine 2014 movie "Labyrinth of Lies".

anadena-28348 The People vs. Fritz Bauer presents the story of Attorney General Fritz Bauer, a Jew on a quest to prosecute the crimes of the Third Reich, as he was also briefly in a concentration camp, at one point. The action is set in motion when he learns that Adolf Eichmann, a lieutenant colonel responsible for mass deportations, is not only alive but living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. To be sure, Eichmann is one of the worst Nazi officials, and in today's political climate it would be hard to imagine that his prosecution would be riddled with difficulties, yet as this film shows, even in the late 1950s the political climate in Germany was not as progressive as it is today. Read the rest of my review here: https://indieethos.com/2016/09/16/the- people-vs-fritz-bauer/

M34 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.