Wednesday March 22nd  2017

Germany  2014  124 minutes
Director: Giulio Ricciarelli
Starring: Andre Szymanski, Alexander Fehling, Friederike Becht.

In the 1950’s Germany was a country undergoing rapid economic recovery and anxious to put the memories of WWII behind it, in particular the Nazi horrors of the death camps. In 1958 journalist Thomas Grielka recognises the former commander of Auschwitz working as a teacher, strictly in breach of current German law. Johann Radmann, a young prosecutor, decides to investigate the case and finds himself in a tangled web of conspiracy, woven both by prominent institutions and government departments, to conceal the truth about the past. A dramatised account of a true story which culminated in the ‘Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials’ some five years later in 1963.