Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Writer-director Stuart Schulberg at Nuremberg's 1948 premiere in Stuttgart, Germany. Photo from Schulberg Family Archive.

Nuremberg

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Nuremberg (1948/2009)

Also Known As: Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, Nurnberg und Seine Lehre

Opened: 09/29/2010 Limited

Screenings09/29/2010
Film Forum/NYC09/29/2010 - 10/05/20107 days
Village East10/13/2010 - 11/09/201028 days
Kendall Square...01/28/2011 - 02/10/201114 days
Music Box Thea...05/06/2011 - 05/12/20117 days
The Nuart06/03/2011 - 06/09/20117 days
Regent Theatre06/03/2011 - 06/09/20117 days
Laemmle's Musi...06/10/2011 - 06/23/201114 days
Laemmle's Town...06/17/2011 - 06/23/20117 days

Trailer: Click for trailer

Genre: Documentary (In English and German w/English subtitles)

Rated: Unrated

Short Synopsis

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today depicts the most famous courtroom drama in modern times, and the first to make extensive use of film as evidence. It was also the first trial to be extensively documented, aurally and visually. All of the proceedings, which lasted for nearly 11 months, were recorded. And though the trial was filmed while it was happening, strict limits were placed on the Army Signal Corps cameramen by the Office of Criminal Counsel. In the end, they were permitted to film only about 25 hours over the entire course of the trial. This was to prove a great impediment for writer/director Stuart Schulberg, and his editor Joseph Zigman, when they were engaged to make the official film about the trial, in 1946, shortly after its conclusion.

Long Synopsis

One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today shows how the four allied prosecution teams -- from the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union -- built their case against the top Nazi leaders. As documented in the film, the trial established the "Nuremberg principles," laying the groundwork for all subsequent prosecutions, anywhere in the world, for crimes against the peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

The film premiered in The Hague as the centerpiece of the Erasmus Prize ceremonies. In 2009, the Prize was awarded to Ben Ferencz, one of the original Nuremberg prosecutors, who is now 90, and to Antonio Cassese, first President of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and currently President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

The original film was written and directed by Stuart Schulberg, and edited by Joseph Zigman, under the aegis of Pare Lorentz, chief of Film/Theatre/Music at the U.S. War Department, and completed by Schulberg in 1948, under the aegis of Eric Pommer, chief of the Motion Picture Branch of U.S. Military Government in Berlin.

The film makes extensive use of footage from The Nazi Plan and Nazi Concentration Camps, evidentiary films compiled under the supervision of Budd Schulberg, that were presented at the Nuremberg trial. Schulberg Productions and Metropolis Productions now present the first complete 35mm picture and sound restoration of the U.S. Government's 1948 film about the first Nuremberg trial - the International Military Tribunal.