In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.
Ulrich Noethen
as Fritz Bauer
David Kross
as Joachim Hell
Bernhard Schütz
as Hans Maria Globke
Uwe Bohm
as Efraim Ilani
Godehard Giese
as Staatsanwalt Streuber
Gustav Peter Wöhler
as Ludwig Erhard
Karl Knaup
as Haim Cohn
Manfred Möck
as Isser Harel
Dieter Schaad
as Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer
Ronald Kukulies
as Kunze
Hede Beck
as Ilona Schäfer
Nathalie Thiede
as Annette Hell
