Sep

14 2016

THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER | Reading Jewish Film Series 2017

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

FOX EAST 4350 Perkiomen Avenue
Reading, PA 19606

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER 14 —7  PM
THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER
Germany| 2015 | Historical Thriller | 105 min
German with English subtitles | Director: Lars Kraume
 

Germany, 1957. Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. Bauer, himself Jewish, has been trying to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since his return from Danish exile. However, he has had no success due to fierce German determination to repress its sinister past. Because of his distrust in the German justice system, Fritz Bauer contacts the Israeli secret service Mossad, and, by doing so, commits treason. Bauer is not seeking revenge for the Holocaust -- he is concerned with the German future.