After the Truth (movie)
Nichts als die Wahrheit- User score: 6.1
- Production country: Germany
- Producer: Roland Suso Richter
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Release date: 9/23/1999
- Run time: 128 min.
Movie description
The famous Nazi-Doctor Dr. Josef Mengele - the "death angel of Auschwitz", who killed more than 300.000 people - comes back from his hide out in Argentina to Germany as a 87 year old man. He must stand up in front of a court for his crimes. The young solicitor Peter Rohm has to defend him. But Peter Rohm - himself an expert on Josef Mengele and his crimes - feels unable to do this. When he decides to take on the case he endangers not only the relationship to his wife but also their lifes. A fictional story around the non-fictional person of Josef Mengele who died in 1979.
