Labyrinth of Lies

Original title: Im Labyrinth des Schweigens

2014
R
2h 4m

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7.3/10

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A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

14K

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Awards
- 6 wins & 18 nominations

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Trivia
Based on the life of Frankfurt's attorney general Fritz Bauer and three of his prosecutors. They all were instrumental for the holding of the important 'Auschwitz trials' in 1963.

Goofs
(at around 1h 45 mins) The Mourner's Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is recited in the film using the modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation. The version of the Kaddish that Kirsch would have known (and that his prayerbook would've contained) would have used the older Ashkenazic pronunciation used by German and Eastern European Jews. Instead of saying, "Yitgadal v' yitkadash," as they do in the film, they they should be saying, "Yisgadal v'yiskadash."

Quotes
Major Parker: You were all Nazis. In the Eastern sector, now you are all communists. Jesus, you Germans! If little green men from Mars landed tomorrow, you would all become green.

Connections
References La Strada (1954)

Soundtracks
Tipitipitipso
Performed by Caterina Valente
Music by Heinz Gietz
Lyrics by Kurt Feltz
Courtesy of Edition Rialto Hans Gerig KG, Bergisch Gladbach
(P) 1957 - Courtesy of Electrola, a division of Universal Music GmbH

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9/10

Different POV...and it's very interesting

For years I've been watching films from the "Allies" point of view and I never thought of the German point of view or I just assumed German people knew of the atrocities committed by their fellow men.

Its amazing and heartbreaking to know that Germans actually didn't know or chose to not believe what the Nazis were doing to the Jews during WWII.

We were made to believe also that all the Nazis were living in hiding after WWII, when some of them were actually living in relative comfort and free from scrutiny, among some of the people they tortured.

Labyrinth of Lies is the film that gives us a look of how the Germans were actually living in denial for years after the war and how some of the Nazis that committed war crimes were living their normal lives as if nothing had happened.

Very interesting film and very easy to understand if you know the history.