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| OPENS 11/20 |
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Frankfurt 1958: nobody wants to look back to the time of the National Socialist regime. A young public prosecutor comes across some documents that help initiate the trial against some members of the SS who served in Auschwitz. But both the horrors of the past and the hostility shown towards his work bring Johann close to a meltdown. It is nearly impossible for him to find his way through this maze; everybody seems to have been involved or guilty.
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 teacher as a former Auschwitz guard, but no one is interested in prosecuting him. Against the will of his immediate superior, Radmann begins to examine the case – and lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization. In those years, “Auschwitz” was a word that some people had never heard of, and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible. Only the Prosecutor General Fritz Bauer (Gert Voss) encourages Radmann’s curiosity; he himself has long wanted to bring the crimes committed in Auschwitz to the public’s attention. The young prosecutor devotes himself with utmost commitment to his new task and is resolved to find out what really happened, and what he ultimately brings to light will change the country forever.
• General Admission – $11.00
• Student / Senior – $9.50
• Members – $7.50
General Admission, Student / Senior & Members tickets are available online AND at the door.
ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL. NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES. NO EXCEPTIONS.
*ALL FILMS START EXACTLY AT THE LISTED TIME*
“It’s one of the most important and revelatory films of the year.”
– NEW YORK OBSERVER
“Fehling gives a commanding physical performance as he transitions from ambition to despair to, finally, resolve.”
– ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“A chilly, disquieting study of a society in a state of denial until the truth is bared.”
– NEW YORK TIMES
“It’s a fine film, and a surprising history lesson — not because the Germans don’t remember the Holocaust, but because we’re reminded that there was a time when they didn’t want to.”
– MOVIE NATION
“An intelligent and arresting fact-based drama.”
– VARIETY
“It’s to the film’s credit that truth-telling here looks as hard as it does noble, and that the Holocaust is not treated just as a suspense story’s macguffin.”
– VILLAGE VOICE
“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.”
– SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE