Judgment at Nuremberg

12/19/19613h 11m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The event the world will never forget. ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Stanley Kramer

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$3,000,000.00

Revenue:

$10,000,000.00

Key words:

right and justice
nazi
court case
judge
concentration camp
world war ii
national socialism
national socialist party
nuremberg trials
trial
nuremberg, germany
black and white
courtroom drama

Cast

Spencer Tracy

~ as ~

Dan Haywood

Richard Widmark

~ as ~

Tad Lawson

Maximilian Schell

~ as ~

Hans Rolfe

Burt Lancaster

~ as ~

Ernst Janning

Marlene Dietrich

~ as ~

Mrs. Bertholt

Judy Garland

~ as ~

Irene Hoffman Wallner

Montgomery Clift

~ as ~

Rudolph Petersen

William Shatner

~ as ~

Harrison Byers

Werner Klemperer

~ as ~

Emil Hahn

Kenneth MacKenna

~ as ~

Kenneth Norris

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
8
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.