The People vs. Fritz Bauer

...er ikke kun et historisk bilag, men også en grum illustration af den evige kamp mellem magthaverne og den sandhed, der ikke altid passer det politiske korrekte.

The title character of “The People vs. Fritz Bauer” was a fascinating man whose career as a prosecutor, trying to expose the crimes of the Nazis, certainly deserves the dramatic treatment director Lars Kraume gives it here.

The sins of one generation threaten to undo the future of the next in this absorbing period piece about a real-life district attorney of a central German state, Fritz Bauer...

Den er tætpakket med information, men den megen kundskab er kilet elegant ind i lag på lag af filmisk tekstur, der henrykker én. Scenografien alene kunne give basis for en længere analyse af industrividunderets Tyskland...