Film info: Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today [The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration]
Film Information
Original Title | Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today [The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration] |
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English Title | Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today [The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration] |
Director | Stuart Schulberg |
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Year | 1948 |
Format | HD |
Colour | B&W |
Duration | 78 min |
Production:
- Guión: Stuart Schulberg
- Montaje: Joseph Zigman
- Música: Han-Otto Borgmann
- Producción: Pare Lorentz, Stuart Schulberg
Synopsis
The Nuremberg trials marked the first systematic use of films as courtroom evidence. One of the people in charge of touring through Germany in search of footage of the Nazi horror was Stuart Schulberg –an Army soldier serving under the command of someone named John Ford– who compiled it all in two films: The Nazi Plan and Nazi Concentration Camps, which became essential for the prosecutor’s case. Schulberg was also in charge of making the official film, a task for which he had only 25 hours of footage out of the whole ten months the trial lasted. His solution was unbeatable: he mixed the “courtroom drama” with the footage he had gathered, which denied the Nazi leaders’ defense. However, in a paradox of the Cold War, the American themselves were the ones who kept the film hidden for decades. Nuremberg was the object of a careful restoration.
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