Labyrinth of Lies Page #3

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
106 Views


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

open old wounds

that just starting to heal.

Did you know that Bauer is a jew?

He was in a camp in 1933.

Seems he's never got over.

- Carefull, Toni!

- Marlene!

Toni, I said carefull.

Nothing has happened.

Dad, this is Johann Radmann.

We went to the cinema and he brought me home.

Pleased to meet you.

-Come, I'll make you dinner.

-Thank you.

-Debt of honor.

-No, this...

Come again.

What do you need?

I am looking for

the camp of Auschwitz.

You are totally out of your mind.

Nobody wants that.

You do not and neither do we.

Leave things as they are.

man, Hitler has gone.

The Russians are the new enemy.

I need the files of the SS men

who served in Auschwitz.

All of them.

10 million nazis.

Incredible, isn't it?

These idiots

wrote down everything.

If you believe that you can

bring them to justice

It's like believing in Santa Claus.

I only am interested in Auschwitz.

You brought a truck with you?

Here, 600,000 SS files.

About 8,000 served in Auschwitz.

But you will have to dig

them out yourself.

Thanks.

It was a machine.

What?

Auschwitz.

It was a killing machine

of 8000 sharks

large, small,

bureaucratic, sadistic...

Two months ago I had 15 names,

now I have 8,000 SS men.

That is 8,000 suspects, Gnielka.

My lasts case was

for driving without a license.

Think of it like this: the more enemies,

the greater the honor.

What do we drink to?

Veritas.

It was the motto of my father.

To the truth.

8.000 Schulzes and Brandners.

And I need witnesses for all.

-Let us in.

- What do you want?

You have to testify.

- On what?

- You are a witness, Mr. Kirsch.

I need your statement.

-I don't want to talk about it.

-Simon, please.

You must testify.

You owe it to the victims.

What do I owe to whom?

What do you want?

Didn't you have enough?

What do you want?

Do you want to investigate Auschwitz?

Do you think that you're going

to change something?

You have no idea.

No idea.

Why?

My girls.

Ruth and Klara.

So small.

We arrived early morning,

we were hundreds, thousands.

We were hungry and cold.

It was very cold.

We were surrounded by

the SS with their dogs.

Everyone, go, go,

quick, quick, in a row.

Hannah went away on a truck.

Suddenly there was... this doctor.

He wore white gloves.

Looked like an angel.

He was very calm.

He knelt down to see Ruth and Klara.

He stroked Ruth's head,

smiled, and said:

"Your twins are cute.

I'll take them to my station."

And I thought he was a doctor,

that they would be safe.

Then the others told me

what Mengele does with twins.

He tortured them

with his experiments.

Injected viruses,

typhus, tuberculosis, diphtheria.

Cut them open without anesthesia.

removed organs.

inserted needles in the head.

He sewed the twins, young children,

back-to-back,

as if they were siamese.

And I gave them to him.

Why they are dead and I'm alive?

We will bring that doctor

to the justice.

I promise.

There was a doctor in the camp.

Dr. Josef Mengele.

You know the stories?

We need to get him,

Dr. Josef Mengele.

He is Auschwitz.

All those who participated,

who have not said no,

are Auschwitz.

How are you getting on?

Calmly and objectively,

Only say what you clearly remember.

Ms. Mandelbaum.

Come, please.

We go to revision.

-Do you agree, Haller.

-It will be a pleasure.

Mr. attorney general, I need help

for my investigation.

Give him Mr. Haller.

Attorney general, please.

I can not give Haller,

he already has a lot of work.

This case is of our

highest priority.

Please

Even the chancellor Adenauer

has made it clear

This unfortunate chapter must end.

A trial would be deadly.

On the contrary.

What is deadly is to shut up.

It would be deadly

for a young democracy.

In addition, the one who

decides here is me.

This is my case.

I design a strategy,

and you work with me.

and you put me up to date.

Quiet, don't bite.

I am in charge of the investigation

by the orders of the attorney general.

Yes, the child has grown.

- Who are the suspects?

- All of them.

What do you mean, all?

-All those who served there.

-That's ridiculous.

"Here, a child,

about five years old,

jumped off the truck.

he had an apple in his hand.

Boger was at the door.

The child stood there

happy with his apple.

Boger approached the child,

grabbed him by the feet

and slammed his head

against the wall.

Then Boger took the apple

and told me to clean up the wall.

And then Boger ate the apple."

That was every day life in Auschwitz.

Don't you find this ridiculous?

How many addresses do you have?

The authorities don't cooperate.

-Take the phone books.

- Excuse me?

I'm fed up. Bring all

telephone books in Germany.

We will find the addresses ourself.

Mengele was the worst of all.

Do you know why?

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