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Judgement At Nuremberg
1961
"Judgment at Nuremberg" explores the post-World War II war crimes committed by the Third Reich through a series of trials held in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Dan Haywood is oversees the trials of four German judges -specifically Dr. Ernst Janning and Emil Hahn - accused of knowingly sentencing innocent men to death. .. Read more
| Starring | Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich |
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| Director | Stanley Kramer |
| Genres | Drama |
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Judgement At Nuremberg
"Judgment at Nuremberg" explores the post-World War II war crimes committed by the Third Reich through a series of trials held in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Dan Haywood is oversees the trials of four German judges -specifically Dr. Ernst Janning and Emil Hahn - accused of knowingly sentencing innocent men to death. Representing the defense is attorney Hans Rolfe while prosecuting the accused is U.S. Col. Tad Lawson. As the trial goes on, both the visiting Americans and their reluctant German hosts often find themselves facing the legacy of the war, and how both of their nations have been changed by it.
| Starring | Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Clift |
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| Director | Stanley Kramer |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 58 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 03 Mar 2004 Production year: 1961 |
| Format | DVD |
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The trial of the judges who enforced Hitler's laws allowing wartime atrocities to occur might not be obvious movie material, but in the hands of brilliant producer-director Stanley Kramer this three-hour saga is mesmerising. Kramer pulled out all the dramatic stops. As producer, he secured one of the great casts of all time, headed by Spencer Tracy as Allied judge Dan Haywood, with touching cameos by Oscar-nominated Judy Garland as Irene Hoffman and Montgomery Clift as Rudolph Petersen, both victims of Nazi tyranny. The film has great dignity, exemplified by Burt Lancaster's intellectual German Ernst Janning, and an Oscar-winning performance from Maximilian Schell (Maria's younger brother), and such star-power makes this grimmest of tales eminently watchable. Kramer has been accused of sugaring the pill, but his methods here attracted new, and notably young, audiences to this Schindler's List of its day.
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Interminable, heavy-going dramatic documentary expanded from a succinct TV play into a courtroom marathon with philosophical asides. All good stuff, but too much of it.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Guilty! (of being a good film)
Made at a time when the war had ended barely 15 years earlier there are clear moral overtones in this dramatisation of the minor World War Two war crimes trials.
It is interesting to see how the film addresses the disposal of the old threat of Nazism and then focuses on the new threat of Communism, telling us that nothing ever really changes in world politics.
Spencer Tracy represents the face of incorruptible US morals whilst Burt Lancaster, sporting a rather curious Irish accent, is the face of the disgraced German judicial system that failed to assert its independence and attempt to check Nazism.
Richard Widmark is the campaigning US prosecutor, on hand in Court with his propoganda films of concentration camps - how prophetic when considering recent events in Iraq!?
The best performance (and the Oscar of course) goes to Maximillian Schell as the defence Counsel. Amusingly he cites examples from US law that certainly does ask the audience how well placed the US really is when it comes to passing judgment on the rest of the world (and that certainly is a theme throughout the film).
One to watch as long as one keeps an eye on Cold War tensions bubbling away at the time. -
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Guilty! (of being a good film)
Made at a time when the war had ended barely 15 years earlier there are clear moral overtones in this dramatisation of the minor World War Two war crimes trials.
It is interesting to see how the film addresses the disposal of the old threat of Nazism and then focuses on the new threat of Communism, telling us that nothing ever really changes in world politics.
Spencer Tracy represents the face of incorruptible US morals whilst Burt Lancaster, sporting a rather curious Irish accent, is the face of the disgraced German judicial system that failed to assert its independence and attempt to check Nazism.
Richard Widmark is the campaigning US prosecutor, on hand in Court with his propoganda films of concentration camps - how prophetic when considering recent events in Iraq!?
The best performance (and the Oscar of course) goes to Maximillian Schell as the defence Counsel. Amusingly he cites examples from US law that certainly does ask the audience how well placed the US really is when it comes to passing judgment on the rest of the world (and that certainly is a theme throughout the film).
One to watch as long as one keeps an eye on Cold War tensions bubbling away at the time. -
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Oscar winner Mann dies
- 31 Mar 2008
Legendary screenwriter Abby Mann, who penned the 1961 classic Judgement At Nuremberg, has died. Mann, who was also nominated for an Oscar for 1965's Ship of Fools, was a prolific television and film writer. He was also the creator of classic TV detective show Kojak, which starred Telly Savalas of Kelly's Heroes and The Dirty Dozen. Some of Mann's most recent work was writing episodes for the 2005 revival of the franchise, which starred Ving Rhames as the lollipop-loving gumshoe. But it is... Read more
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"Judgment at Nuremberg" explores the post-World War II war crimes committed by the Third Reich through a series of trials held in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Dan Haywood is oversees the trials of ... -