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The General Case

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.

Top Cast

  • Ulrich Noethen

    Ulrich Noethen

    Fritz Bauer

  • David Kross

    David Kross

    Joachim Hell

  • Bernhard Schütz

    Bernhard Schütz

    Hans Maria Globke

  • Uwe Bohm

    Uwe Bohm

    Efraim Ilani

  • Godehard Giese

    Godehard Giese

    Staatsanwalt Streuber

  • Gustav Peter Wöhler

    Gustav Peter Wöhler

    Ludwig Erhard

  • Karl Knaup

    Karl Knaup

    Haim Cohn

  • Manfred Möck

    Manfred Möck

    Isser Harel

  • Dieter Schaad

    Dieter Schaad

    Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer

Overview

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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