Judgment at Nuremberg
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime confront a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood presides as evidence and testimony are presented not only by the lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also by the widow of a Nazi general and by Irene Wallner, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness.
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Stanley Kramer
Marshall Schlom
Ivan Volkman
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badelf
> Where were we when Hitler began shrieking his hate in the Reichstag? Where were we when our neighbors were being dragged out in the middle of the night to Dachau? Where were we when every village in Germany has a railroad terminal where cattle cars were filled with children being carried off to their extermination? Where were we when they cried out in the night to us?
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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.
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The directors of Judgment at Nuremberg are Stanley Kramer, Marshall Schlom, and Ivan Volkman.
The cast of Judgment at Nuremberg includes William H. O'Brien as German Prisoner in Cafeteria (uncredited), Jack Stoney as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Harold Miller as Courtroom Officer (uncredited), Bert Stevens as German Prisoner in Cafeteria (uncredited), Sayre Dearing as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Hans Moebus as Assistant Defense Attorney (uncredited), Maximilian Schell as Hans Rolfe, Bess Flowers as Concert Attendee (uncredited), Raoul Freeman as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Frank Baker as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Shep Houghton as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Ray Teal as Curtiss Ives, and more.
The duration of Judgment at Nuremberg is 3h 11 mins.
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Judgment at Nuremberg was released on 18 Dec 1961.
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Judgment at Nuremberg has 2 reviews on Fanziz, with an average rating of 8.5/10. One reviewer wrote: "> Where were we when Hitler began shrieking his hate in the Reichstag? Where were we when our neighbors were being dragged out in the middle of the night to Dachau? Where were w..."
