Labyrinth of Lies

Showings

O Cinema North Beach Fri, Nov 20, 2015 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Nov 21, 2015 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Nov 22, 2015 1:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Nov 22, 2015 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Mon, Nov 23, 2015 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Tue, Nov 24, 2015 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Wed, Nov 25, 2015 6:30 PM
Film Info
Film Type:Based on a True Story
Crime
Drama
Human Rights
Foreign Language
War
Rating:R
Release Year:2015
Run Time:2h 4m
Subtitles:English
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Giulio Ricciarell
Cast:Alexander Fehling

Description

Germany, 1958. 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, but lacks the legal means for a prosecution. When Johann Radmann and Thomas Gnielka find documents that lead to the perpetrators, Bauer immediately recognizes how explosive they are and officially entrusts all further investigations to Radmann. The young prosecutor devotes himself with utmost commitment to his new task and is resolved to find out what really happened.

He questions witnesses, combs through files, secures evidence and allows himself to be drawn into the case to such an extent that he is blind to everything else - even to Marlene Wondrak (Friederike Becht), with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love. Radmann oversteps boundaries, falls out with friends, colleagues and allies, and is sucked deeper and deeper into a labyrinth of lies and guilt in his search for the truth. But what he ultimately brings to light will change the country forever.