In this age, this story reminds us that it is always individuals who bring about change and push forward civilization. We live in an age of self-publishing, in which 13-year-olds are their own PR department, while as individuals we feel we cannot have any influence on such a globalized, networked, and complex world. Trust in the story a story for our times. No part should draw attention to itself and detract from the story. Smooth editing, rhythmic and precise.I want the audience to be immersed only in the story, the complex narration made easier by an intense, minimalist score. Space and time are designed for strong acting emotions that carry the story forward. The camera work is classic: composed shots calibrate what we see and what is left to the imagination. I feel the theme dictates the aesthetic choices. Yet the shadow of its war crimes is catching up, literally around the corner.

An atmosphere of frantic optimism and denial, a country rebuilding itself. 'A story of personal courage, of fighting for what is right, and a story of redemption. But what he ultimately brings to light will change the country forever. 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. 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. The young prosecutor devotes himself with utmost commitment to his new task and is resolved to find out what really happened back then. 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. 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. In those years, 'Auschwitz' was a word that some people had never heard of, and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible.

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. 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. Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) has just recently been appointed Public Prosecutor and, like all beginners, he has to content himself with boring traffic offenses.

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