Directed by:
Marcel OphülsScreenplay:
Marcel OphülsCinematography:
Michael J. DavisCast:
Joan Baez, Yehudi Menuhin, Albert Speer, Karl Dönitz, Johanna Hofer, Beate Klarsfeld, Hermann Göring (a.f.), Robert Jay Lifton, John Kenneth GalbraithPlots(1)
A monumental account of the Nuremberg Trials and their consequences. The questions permeating the film are both simple and complex: how is it possible to judge the behaviour of a nation or of an individual? Is the judgement of a victorious nation over a defeated one inevitably hypocritical? And did America's atrocities in Vietnam damage the moral high-ground the country acquired at the Nuremberg trials? For the director it is about pinning down attitudes, concepts and perspectives. Marcel Ophüls, who this year is being awarded the Berlinale Camera, is one of the most important documentarians of the 20th century. He is a master of purposeful digression: he makes the simple complex and the complex simple – often in almost painful synchronicity. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Joan Baez
USA
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Yehudi Menuhin
USA
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Albert Speer
German Empire
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Verboten! (1959) - a.f.
Karl Dönitz
German Empire
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Verboten! (1959) - a.f.
Johanna Hofer
German Empire
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Beate Klarsfeld
German Empire
Hermann Göring (a.f.)
German Empire
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Canada
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The Speer and Hitler: Devil's Architect (2005) (series)