The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)

7.1R105 min

2015 film

The People vs. Fritz Bauer (German: Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer) is a 2015 German biographical drama film directed by Lars Kraume, chronicling the German Jewish prosecutor Fritz Bauer's post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

The film won the awards for Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, and three more at Deutscher Filmpreis (″Lola″) 2016. The film also won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival 36. It was listed as one of eight films that could be the German submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not selected.

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What is The People vs. Fritz Bauer about?
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015) — The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
Is The People vs. Fritz Bauer based on a true story?
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