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Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
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18 December 1961 (Sweden)
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More than a motion picture...It is an overwhelming experience in human emotion you will never forget! See more »
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In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes. Full summary » | Full synopsis »
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Won 2 Oscars.
Another 12 wins
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21 nominations
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(19 articles)
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A Film Of Enduring Value
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Spencer Tracy | ... | Chief Judge Dan Haywood | |
| Burt Lancaster | ... | Dr. Ernst Janning | |
| Richard Widmark | ... | Colonel Tad Lawson | |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... | Mrs. Bertholt | |
| Maximilian Schell | ... | Hans Rolfe | |
| Judy Garland | ... | Mrs. Irene Hoffman Wallner | |
| Montgomery Clift | ... | Rudolph Petersen | |
| Edward Binns | ... | Senator Burkette | |
| Werner Klemperer | ... | Emil Hahn | |
| Torben Meyer | ... | Werner Lampe | |
| Martin Brandt | ... | Friedrich Hofstetter | |
| William Shatner | ... | Captain Harrison Byers | |
| Kenneth MacKenna | ... | Judge Kenneth Norris | |
| Alan Baxter | ... | Brigadier General Matt Merrin | |
| Ray Teal | ... | Judge Curtiss Ives |
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186 min
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Norway:16 | West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:S (1990) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 (1961) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG
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By the time the film was made, all of the convicts had already been released.See more »
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Factual errors: At the end of the movie a graphic is shown that 99 people were tried and sentenced at Nuremberg and that by the date of the movie (1961) none remained in prison. Rudolf Hess was tried at Nuremberg, found guilty on two of four counts charged (crimes against peace and conspiracy) and sentenced to life in 1946. He died in 1987 still imprisoned in Spandau Prison.See more »
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Ernst Janning:We have fallen on happy times, Herr Hahn. In old times it would have made your day if I'd deigned to say good morning to you. Now that we are here in this place together... you feel obliged to tell me what to do with my life... Listen to me, Herr Hahn, there have been terrible things that have happened to me in my life. But the worst thing that has ever happened... is to find myself in the company of men like you.See more »
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They say that time heals all heartache. In the case of the Third Reich, I'm not sure that the old saying is true. Out of respect for the Holocaust victims, and as an important history lesson, there's something to be said for not forgetting the evils of Hitler. Fortunately, we have this great film to help us not forget.
"Judgment At Nuremberg" is a dramatization of one of the many real life post WWII Nuremberg trials of high ranking Nazis. Most of the film focuses on the 1948 courtroom trial of four judges who helped to carry out Hitler's decrees. As part of the prosecution's case against the judges, real life, graphic film footage showing the horrors of the death camps engenders a gut level impression that is both powerful and persuasive. The film thus educates viewers in ways that a dry textbook of facts and figures never could.
But there's more to the film than the trial. In other parts of Nuremberg we see ordinary Germans trying to get on with their lives as best they can, three years after the war's end, in a bombed out and bleak city. One of these persons is Madame Bertholt (Marlene Dietrich), the wife of a dead German soldier. In contrast to the harsh and contentious trial, Madame Bertholt's kindness toward the tribunal's lead judge, Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy), provides an example of the innocence and decency of ordinary Germans, and thus adds a softer, more contemplative perspective to the ordeal. In these non-courtroom scenes, the melancholy background music and the soft production lighting create a mood of depression and sadness.
I find very little to criticize in this three hour film. Perhaps the plot could have been clearer in identifying the legal counsel of three of the four defendants. And maybe in those scenes wherein the four defendants conversed among themselves, the dialogue should have been in German, not English. But these are trivial points. Overall, this is a film that is well written and directed, a film with credible actors giving stellar performances, and most of all, a film that assures preservation of that era's historic significance, with a political and social message that has enduring value.