LABYRINTH OF LIES MOVIE REVIEW IMDB MOVIE
This is not a perfect movie at all, sometimes the dialogs are excellent, sometimes the exact opposite, but everybody with an interest in German history or German films in general can give it a chance. Also the scene with Radmann's mother felt randomly rushed in as this relationship remained completely unexamined. The first meeting where the female main character is at court is not good and the ending with the two and the jacket metaphor I thought was downright cringeworthy. The problem was not the acting there, it was really the writing. Apart from that, basically all the romantic scenes felt really weak to me. It would have been nice to watch the filmmakers take the risk and end the film with the lead character failing as we see him as a private prosecutor together with the lawyer who defended the accused Nazi criminal earlier on when he called his acts human as he was not the one deciding who gets killed, but who shall live. Okay, you could bring up the excuse, this is how it happened in real, but somehow I did not like it. The ending was too heroic for me and too forced as a happy end I thought. Unfortunately, there are also some criticisms. The historic references were interesting too and I was surprised to see how so many people did not know anything about Auschwitz, apart from these who obviously did not want to know. Maybe my favorite moment of the film and I quite liked Johann von Bülow's performance here. I liked the reactions from Radmann's secretary and also the one-word-swearing from his colleague right after one interrogation. Can they be punished for being in the party? What did they have to do to be really responsible for what happened and face consequences? Wasn't everybody involved somehow? Including the central character's family? Why haven't they done anything to stop the tragedy? There were a couple good scenes in this film. Obviously, there is also lots of morale in there. Prosecutor Radmann looks into German history and tries to catch those responsible for the crimes during World War II. My favorite performance, however, comes from the recently deceased Gert Voss, who plays a bit of a father figure and mentor to Fehling's character, at the very moment Radmann loses faith in his real father. The role was pretty baity and all in all Fehling did a good job with it. Fehling is one of Germany's rising stars and you may have seen him in "Goethe! not too long ago. The main part is played by Alexander Fehling, namely a prosecutor (Radmann) 15 years after World War II. Actually, he has been more of an actor so far, just like his wife Lisa Martinek. So, looking at how he is relatively new to the genre, the result is not bad at all especially given Ricciarelli also wrote the film together with Elisabath Bartel. "Im Labyrinth des Schweigens" or "Labyrinth of Lies" is director Giulio Ricciarelli's first feature film after 4 short films in the last ten years.
LABYRINTH OF LIES MOVIE REVIEW IMDB TRIAL
The ultimate trial proved to be one of the most important in modern history. This is a film about seeing what is most important in our lives-what can be changed and what can't. He is angry with all of Germany but doesn't ask why this all happened. He even dismisses the children of Nazis, even if they had nothing to do with anything. He get very emotional in his all-or-nothing quest and alienates people. This is about a man who is so driven that he can't come to grips with the idea that most of the country were Nazis, including those close to him. He wants the big fish, Joseph Mengele, and forgets about those who were in the SS or who acted like savages in the camps. He finds a small group of people that are working on the cases in the camps. When he proposes action, he is ignored or scolded by those that would be of the most help. A young lawyer hears his pleas but doesn't know what he can do. A Jew, whose children were experimented upon, demands to be heard but is ignored by the legal system. In 1958, the German people had very little knowledge of the death camps of World War II.