Come for the movie, stay for the message. It’s 1963, and an ambitious prosecutor — and one of the few good Germans in Naziland — thinks it time to finally alert a nation of orders-following, Holocaust-denying Huns to the existence of Auschwitz. Alexander Fehling (imagine a young John Wayne with Owen Wilson’s nose) stars as a character based on real-life attorney general Fritz Bauer, one of the men behind Frankfurt's "Auschwitz trial," Germany’s first public prosecution of Nazi war criminals. In order to get to the meat of the message, you’ll first have to swallow a stock, Swastika-inscribed, party-disrupting brick; an around-in-circles romantic subplot; and at it’s most sentimental, a former SS child-killer bending to give a tyke a lollipop. Not quite the searing examination of national guilt hinted at in the trailer, there’s still enough uncharted inside information (albeit housed in an otherwise pedestrian presentation) to warrant interest. (2014) — Scott Marks
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