Labyrinth of Lies Page #5

Synopsis: The year is 1958. The war has been over for thirteen years and the Federal Republic of Germany is not only recovering but even booming. But where are the Nazis? Who has ever heard of the death camps? It looks as if everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds in this land of milk and honey - At least, until the day journalist Thomas Gnielka reports on the recognition by a German-Jewish artist of a local schoolteacher, a former guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp - At least, until Johann Radmann, a young prosecutor, decides to investigate the case - Nobody knows it yet but this is the dawn of a new era. Even if the road to awareness will be long and rocky.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Giulio Ricciarelli
Production: Claussen Wöbke Putz Filmproduktion
  6 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R
Year:
2014
124 min
Website
102 Views


No.

- Neither one? Are you sure?

-Yes.

Can you testify about

the crimes committed in the camp?

Yes. I can.

Hundreds of thousands

of people were killed.

We will need the names

of the victims.

Haven't you heard him?

Hundreds of thousands, it was a factory.

How can he know the names?

Well.

Then I will write

"victims unknown".

My wife and my son

were murdered there.

Sorry.

Can you give me the date

when it happened?

The SS did not give us a calendar.

What do you think that Auschwitz was?

A summer camp by the lake?

Mr. Bauer, who is this rookie

that brought me here?

Can we talk a moment?

Do you want a coffee?

Schmittchen, coffee, please.

We'll be back right away.

The list is not enough.

What do you suggest?

I will ask Bichinsky what he saw.

Concrete actions.

That means that all SS men

from Auschwitz are suspected.

-All of them.

-Yes, that's clear to me.

I want to know what happened there.

Mr. Radmann...

This is a labyrinth.

Do not lose yourself.

Sr. Bichinsky, tell me everything

you have experienced.

Where to start?

At the beginning.

What did he do?

Hans Brandner struck the witness

with a whip until fainting.

The witness has lost an eye.

Why did Brandner hit?

Because he dared to look at him.

-We arrest him now.

- What? No.

- Why not?

-We don't have charges.

-But...

-It is not a murder.

Everything else has prescribed.

What are we doing here?

I have to see him.

I have to see what kind

of man he is.

-Thank you.

-You are as beautiful as your mother.

How kind, Mr. Brandner.

I see.

Wait.

- Mr. Brandner?

- Yes?

I think we know each other.

I do not remember.

Of course we do.

I never forget a face.

I don't know.

You are not from around here, right?

Try one.

You will not find better.

Sorry, I have to make a delivery.

Come.

My robe, Schmittchen, fast!

Stay sitted.

How do you imagine that?

You want to bring people from Poland,

Israel, and God knows where else.

We even do not have diplomatic relations

with these countries.

And for what?

To prove that someone did something

in Poland during the war.

These people witnessed

thousands of murders.

What murders? Be realistic.

What is the purpose?

We had no choice.

Those who refused, died.

In addition, all of this

in Nrnberg after the war.

150 men were sentenced in Nrnberg.

By the allies, not by

Germans. It's not finished yet.

I'm sorry, attorney,

You need to be in court.

This is unprecedented.

A country that condemns its own soldiers

for their actions during the war.

You're not going anywhere.

Do you know one thing?

I love this country.

Still.

In spite of everything.

It has suffered so much.

And you are only going to

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