Post by Aerie on Jul 11, 2010 0:04:00 GMT -5
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is a fictionalized film account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials. It was written by Abby Mann, directed by Stanley Kramer, and starred Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Werner Klemperer, William Shatner and Montgomery Clift. An earlier adaptation had been broadcast as a television movie.[1]
The film depicts the trial of certain judges who served during the Nazi regime in Germany. Such a trial did occur: the film was inspired by the Judges' Trial before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1947. Four of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison. A key thread in the film's plot involves a "race defilement" trial known as the "Feldenstein case". In this fictionalized case, based on the real life Katzenberger Trial, an elderly Jewish man was tried for an improper relationship with an "Aryan" woman, and put to death in 1942.
The film depicts the trial of certain judges who served during the Nazi regime in Germany. Such a trial did occur: the film was inspired by the Judges' Trial before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1947. Four of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison. A key thread in the film's plot involves a "race defilement" trial known as the "Feldenstein case". In this fictionalized case, based on the real life Katzenberger Trial, an elderly Jewish man was tried for an improper relationship with an "Aryan" woman, and put to death in 1942.
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