Germany 2010 / Ilona Ziok / 97 min. / DigiBeta.
Two Showings
[mini-icon icon=”time”] 17.30 hs.
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Sala Calsamiglia.
[mini-icon icon=”time”] 21.00 hs.
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] Institut Francès de Barcelona.
[mini-icon icon=”play-circle”] DOCUMENTARY
[mini-icon icon=”certificate”] Premiere in Spain
In the conservative (and often anti-democratic) Cold War climate of post war West Germany, Fritz Bauer, the General State Attorney (Prosecutor) of Hess and Lower Saxonia, like no other, saw clearly and spoke frankly. He fearlessly and tirelessly promoted the democratization of the country. But during his investigations of National Socialist crimes, gets caught in the old Nazi apparatus. Nevertheless, he was the leading prosecutor of the world famous Frankfurt Auschwitz Trails and also played an important part in the abduction and extradition of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. A film about a righteous man and his work in the 60s and a nation that wants nothing to do with its past.
Introduction and debate by Herta Däubler-Gmelin and Alfonso Aragoneses
