Rating: R Grade: B

By 1958, in Frankfurt, Germany most citizens believed they had come to terms with the involvement in the horrors of the Holocaust; publicly accepting responsibility and erecting systemic structural changes to the society to ensure that history would not repeat itself. But an ambitious young prosecutor (Alexander Fehling) begins to question just how much all of Germany has owned up to their role in the atrocities, when a journalist (André Szymanski) confronts him with evidence that Nazis from Auschwitz walk the streets, serving as teachers and doctors and bakers, without remorse for their actions. The prosecutor initiates an investigation that will force him, and an entire nation, to take a hard look at themselves. With so much at stake, the screenplay, credited to director Giulio Ricciarelli and Elisabeth Bartel (with collaborator Amelie Syberberg) tends to gloss over huge chunks of detail, but more than enough of the dark truth remains to haunt a global generation removed from these historic events.  (tt stern-enzi)