Review of Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
Seen in 2023.
Six year of preparations for the 1963–1965 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
As a feature film production, it’s clearly torn between the historical reality and the formulae of drama. Reality wins, most clearly in the brief scene where Hansi Jochmann’s Schmittchen, the main character’s 100% realistic legal secretary, gets so tired of his bullshit that she slams a door on him. There are bigger problems in the sometimes perfunctory set dressing and the rapidity of the editing done to compress the script into the 2-hour runtime.