Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - Part 3

DIRECTOR: Stanley Kramer
RELEASE DATE: December 19, 1961
GENRE: Drama / History


PLOT:
After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich. In 1948, a series of trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany, by an international tribunal, headed by American legal and military officials, with the intent of bringing to justice those guilty of crimes against humanity. However, by that time most of the major figures of the Nazi regime were either dead or long missing, and in the resulting legal proceedings American judges often found themselves confronting the question of how much responsibility someone held who had "just followed orders." Judgment at Nuremberg is a dramatized version of the proceedings at one of these trials, in which Judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) is overseeing the trials of four German judges -- most notably Dr. Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster) and Emil Hahn (Werner Klemperer) -- accused of knowingly sentencing innocent men to death in collusion with the Nazis. Representing the defense is attorney Hans Rolfe (Maximilian Schell), while prosecuting the accused is U.S. Col. Tad Lawson (Richard Widmark). 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 irrevocably changed by it. Judgment at Nuremberg also features notable supporting performances by Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, and Montgomery Clift. Originally written and produced as a play for television, the screen version of Judgment at Nuremberg was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, with Maximilian Schell and Abby Mann taking home Oscars for (respectively) Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• at
• nuremberg
• 1961
• drama
• history
• SPENCER
• TRACY
• BURT
• LANCASTER
• RICHARD
• WIDMARK
• MAXIMILIAN
• SCHELL
• JUDY
• GARLAND
• MARLENE
• DIETRICH
• MONTGOMERY
• CLIFT
• 1960's
• movies
• trials

[silentobservor]

I cannot compliment this movie enough. Perfect balance, excellent acting, phenomenal theme weaving...

[ETericET]

@lincoln34C come on ... you can do better then that ... you're rewritting of history leaves much to be desired. Maybe he should be passing out flowers and candy like bush did in Iraq.



[TheBees9]

5:16 was one of my favorite parts in the movie

[ETericET]

@lincoln34C Ya .. that ^%$^$#^ Obama .. he killed Osama ... this violence has to stop. Where is 'bomb bomb Iran' McCain when you need him ???

[ETericET]

@lincoln34C keep telling yourself that buddy .. it's all you have left.

[TheLn2011]

That segment at 4:40. Eerie but powerful stuff. To think that just years earlier, Adolf Hitler was spewing his hatred at Nazi rallies there.

[fargo124]

@lincoln34C

My response to this is 'so what?' This country has even less room for a Skinhead who can't accept that there is a BLACK man in the WHITE house and there is nothing, absulutely nothing, that he can do about it no matter how much he screams.

Even better, if you're pinning your hopes on the GOP in 2012, don't. Half of their party hates the guy who is going to be ther nominee and the other half hates their best challenger. You might as well face it, the President has this thing won.

[lincoln34C]

your memory fail you with the bombings the black beauty authorized or are you just not going to mention that part because it does not help your point? Just another liberal cum-dumpster that nobody takes serious. Get ready to crawl back into your hole after the 2012 elections, nut-job. This country is center right and will always be and has no place for idiot leftists like you.

[princeandrey]

@lincoln34C Oh, I get it, a sicko.

[lincoln34C]

@princeandrey you forget the military violence and bombings at the hands of the current nigger president, you dumb liberal cunt? Go fuck yourself, fatty leftist unamerican nutjob.I hope ill falls upon you and your family and you all perish painfully.

[gmihut]

yes,in the end : "THE HWOLE WORLD was responsible for this atrocities...