The Investigation

Jul 25, 2024

4h 1m

★ 6.7

Overview

Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, in its intensity and graphically described detail.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

WDR

ARTE

A Company

Film & Mischwaren

Springer Stiftung

Leonine Studios

The Investigation Trailers

Cast

Richter

Rainer Bock

Ankläger

Clemens Schick

Verteidiger

Bernhard Schütz

Zeuge 1

Christian Kaiser

Zeuge 2

Dirk Ossig

Zeuge 3

Arno Frisch

Zeugin 4

Elisabeth Duda

Zeugin 5

Nicolette Krebitz

Zeuge 6

Attila Borlan

Zeuge 7

Robert Mika

Zeuge 8

Marcel Hensema

Zeugin 9

Christiane Paul

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6.8

Playing for Time

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When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.

0.0

Versus

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6.4

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Dec 6, 1991

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7.0

The Zone of Interest

Dec 15, 2023

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6.0

Reverie

Jan 8, 2019

Mississippi - December 1965: A Christmas party is the venue for the casual encounter between Darrell, an African American man and Lily, a Caucasian woman. This is a story of racism and forbidden love as a KKK member walks into the party with one mission, to kill everyone inside.

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A. Rimbaud

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8.0

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

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Star soprano Anna Netrebko adds Donizetti’s hapless heroine to her growing list of Met triumphs in this production by Mary Zimmerman that updates the events to the 19th century. Rising young tenor sensation Piotr Beczała is Edgardo and Mariusz Kwiecien plays Lucia’s brother Enrico whose brutal authority forces her to deny her heart and marry for the sake of her family. The famous mad scene brilliantly depicts the cascading fragments of Lucia’s disintegrating mind.

6.6

We Believed

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1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following decades.

6.8

Joy

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5.9

Blonde

Sep 16, 2022

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0.0

Brides

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In 1961, Sally Bishop and her husband vacation to Northern Italy, where they get stranded at a remote villa run by the enigmatic Vova, who presides over a household of beautiful, deathless women and their caretaker. As Sally becomes entangled in their world of seduction, violence and illusion, she begins to lose her grip on time and self as her own dark transformation unfolds.

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0.0

By Any Means

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A notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent team up to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in 1966 Mississippi.

10.0

And the Children Shall Lead

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Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.

7.2

Center Stage

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6.2

Justice Is Done

Sep 20, 1950

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.

0.0

The Last Dinner

Oct 26, 2023

The movie takes place in the kitchen of Cankaya Mansion on Sunday night, October 28, 1923, a day before the proclamation of the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and formally marking the end of the Ottoman Empire.

0.0

Family Doctrine (Part 2) - A Setting Sun on the Green Hill

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8.0

Il est minuit, Paris s'éveille

Dec 25, 2012

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