The people vs. Fritz Bauer

15 yrs 100 minutes • 2015 • 7.1

Germany, 1957. District prosecutor Fritz Bauer has received evidence that SS Officer Adolf Eichmann, responsible for mass deployment of Jews during the war, is hiding in Buenos Aires. Ever since Bauer has returned to his homeland from an exile in Denmark, he has devoted his life to bring justice to the people responsible for the terrible war crimes during the nazi regime. But everywhere in German society former Nazis have exchanged their uniforms for suits and quietly try to obstruct justice being done. Fritz Bauer realizes that he will have to commit treason to capture Eichmann in this German drama thriller.