Film Music Reporter

Colosseum Records will release a soundtrack album for the historical thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer). The album features the film’s original music composed by Julian Maas & Christoph M. Kaiser. The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 1, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. The People vs. Fritz Bauer is directed by Lars Kraume and stars Burghart Klaussner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg, Jörg Schüttauf, Sebastian Blomberg, Michael Schenk and Laura Tonke. The movie chronicles the herculean efforts of German district attorney Fritz Bauer to bring Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann to justice. The thriller premiered at this year’s Locarno Film Festival and was also shown earlier this month at the Toronto Film Festival. The film will be released in Germany on October 1. No domestic distribution deal has been announced yet.