It is possible to review the film Nuremberg through the pages of the script written by director James Vanderbilt.
Albeit in the shadow of Good Way e Avatar: Fire and Ashthere is another film that is attracting the public to the theater and which at the moment, in these Christmas holidays at the end of 2025, ranks third in the Italian box office with a total of 4 million euros of collection, equal to 511 thousand spectators paying (Cinetel data updated to 30 December). Nuremberg it is a film that highlights the contrast between duty and conscience, between the sense of justice and the need to understand how the human race could get so low.
On November 20, 1945 it began the Nuremberg Trialsthe first international tribunal in history. A few months after the end of the Second World War, the main political, military and economic leaders of the Third Reich were brought to justice to answer for the crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany.
The director James Vanderbilt he is also the author of the screenplay, adapted from the essay “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist” by Jack El-Hai. The book highlights the work done by the military psychiatrist Douglas Kelleycharged with assessing the mental state of Nazi hierarchs, including Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man, the Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring.
The director stated that he wrote the film to tell this story to the new generations. Although the book of El-Hai was centered on the character of the psychiatrist, Vanderbilt he wanted to extend the story to the birth of that unprecedented tribunal, which included the allied powers the United States, the Soviet Union, France and the United Kingdom. Thanks to the Deadline website, we have the opportunity to take a look at the script of this film starring a great cast: Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, MIchael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Colin Hanks, Lydia Peckham e Richard E. Grant.
Light the original Nuremberg screenplay it is a way to “review” the film through Vanderbilt’s words and observe the technicalities of writing for cinema:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26412344-nuremberg-read-the-screenplay/
Nuremberg: plot and trailer of the film
The film recounts the Nuremberg trials, during which the Allied powers accused the top leaders of the Nazi regime, calling them to answer for the atrocities committed during the Second World War, in particular the Holocaust. At the center of the story is the young American army psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), charged with assessing the mental state of the main defendants to determine whether they are capable of facing a fair trial. His task leads him to confront the most ruthless characters of the century, among whom he stands out Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), a key figure in the Hitler regime.
What begins as a clinical examination quickly turns into an intense and disturbing psychological confrontation between two polar opposite men. On the one hand the rational and determined Kelley, on the other the charismatic, lucid and manipulative Göring. Their dialogue, made up of tense interrogations and tension-filled silences, evolves into a real duel that calls into question the boundaries of justice, madness and moral responsibility. Leading the prosecution in the trial is the inflexible chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon), determined to ensure that the crimes of Nazism are punished fairly and definitively, giving the world a legal precedent.
Below is the trailer for Nuremberg.
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