Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, written by Abby Mann and starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner and Montgomery Clift. Set in Nuremberg in 1948, the film centers on a military tribunal led by Chief Trial Judge Dan Haywood Tracy, before which four German judges and prosecutors stand accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime. The film deals with noncombatant war crimes against a civilian population i.e., crimes committed in violation of the Law of Nations or the Laws of War, the Holocaust, and with postWorld War II geopolitical complexity of the Nuremberg Trials. An earlier version of the story was broadcast as a television episode of Playhouse 90. Schell and Klemperer played the same roles in both productions.

The film is notable for its use of courtroom drama to illuminate individual perfidy and moral compromise in times of violent political upheaval it was one of the first films not to shy from showing actual footage filmed by American and British soldiers after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Shown in court by prosecuting attorney Colonel Tad Lawson Richard Widmark, the scenes of huge piles of naked corpses laid out in rows and bulldozed into large pits were considered exceptionally graphic for a mainstream film of its day.In 2013, Judgment at Nuremberg was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. ........

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