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THE PEOPLE VS FRITZ BAUER

Basically true story of a German Jew who played a major role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann & the subsequent Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. A prior German film which also circled around these same topics was, indeed, a “labyrinth of lies.” (JLH: 4.5/5) Review by FF2 Editor-in-Chief Jan Lisa Huttner What does a superhero look like? The main character in […]

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PHOENIX

Berlin 1945. A woman returns from Auschwitz with only one goal: Find her husband. Despite being told that he was the one who betrayed her hiding place to the Nazis–she is Jewish, he is not–she still loves him. To say I hated Phoenix–a film as subtle as its title–would be an understatement. (JLH: 2/5) ************************* Phoenix […]

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