Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

3h 11m

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In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

Directors

Stanley Kramer

Writers

Abby Mann(screenplay by)

Abby Mann(original story by)

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Spencer Tracy

Richard Widmark

Maximilian Schell

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Dan Haywood

Tad Lawson

Hans Rolfe

Ernst Janning

Mrs. Bertholt

Irene Hoffman Wallner

Rudolph Petersen

Harrison Byers

Emil Hahn

Kenneth Norris

Werner Lampe

Abe Radnitz

Matt Merrin

Senator Burkette

Mrs. Halbestadt

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Heinrich Geuter

Friedrich Hofstetter

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Stanley Kramer

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Abby Mann(screenplay by)

Abby Mann(original story by)

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8/10

Spencer Tracy is the presiding judge at the fictitious trial of some of the most evil Nazis to have survived the end of WWII. Chief amongst them is the formidable former jurist "Dr. Ernst Janning" (Burt Lancaster). Richard Widmark is tasked with leading the prosecution; Maximilian Schell as their defender. Make no mistake, this is no standard courtroom melodrama. The performances from all - especially a sensitive and measured Tracy who tries, despite every sense of humanity within himself pulling him otherwise - to remain as impartial and fair in the face of the evidence of brutality presented to him and his fellow judges. There are a couple of wonderful cameo performances from victims of the alleged abuses - notably Judy Garland and Monty Clift with Marlene Dietrich as the widow of a former Nazi general who seems to be in some sort of a daze of denial (we are never quite certain what she did/didn't know). The story challenges the very basis of an independent judiciary and the principles of blind obedience motivated by pure evil, zeal or fear. The use, only once, of actual British footage from a liberated concentration camp is heart-rending and sickening in equal measure. A real must see.

Geronimo196720 Apr, 2023