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The General Case(2016)
Status: Released
Date: 2016-02-24
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Time: 1h 32m
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In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.
Languages: German.
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Movie: The General Case
Top 10 Billed Cast
Ulrich Noethen
Fritz Bauer
David Kross
Joachim Hell
Bernhard Schütz
Hans Maria Globke
Uwe Bohm
Efraim Ilani
Godehard Giese
Staatsanwalt Streuber
Gustav Peter Wöhler
Ludwig Erhard
Dieter Schaad
Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer
Ronald Kukulies
Kunze
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In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.
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2016-02-24
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