Nuremberg (2025)

	Directed by: James Vanderbilt	COUNTRY USA GENRE History/Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Nürnberg RUNNING TIME 148 minutes
	Produced by: Richard Saperstein Bradley J. Fischer James Vanderbilt Frank Smith William Sherak Benjamin Tappan Cherilyn Hawrysh István Major George Freeman
	Written by (based on The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai): James Vanderbilt

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Hermann Göring	Russell Crowe	½
Douglas Kelley	Rami Malek
Sergeant Howie Triest	Leo Woodall
Burton C. Andrus	John Slattery
John Amen	Mark O'Brien	-
Gustave Gilbert	Colin Hanks	-
Elsie Douglas	Wrenn Schmidt	-
Lila	Lydia Peckham	-
Robert H. Jackson	Michael Shannon	½
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe	Richard E. Grant
Emmy Göring	Lotte Verbeek	-
Rudolf Hess	Andreas Pietschmann	-
George C. Marshall	Steven Pacey	-
Francis Biddle	Paul Anthony-Barber	-
Julius Streicher	Dieter Riesle	-
Karl Dönitz	Andreas Pietschmann
Edda Göring	Fleur Bremmer	½

Review

It's 1945, Nazi Germany has just surrendered, and the remaining leaders who haven't committed suicide or fled are captured by the Allies. The most notable of them is Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), who seems convinced of his own inculpability when psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) is assigned to assess his state of mind. Although portraying some of the same proceedings as the 1961 classic Judgment at Nuremberg, this is by no means a remake. As written and directed by James Vanderbilt (Truth), this isn’t the type of war movie that is meant to be exhilarating or fun in any way; it’s supposed to be devastating and allegorical. Beyond its anti-war stance, the film also questions the whole grammar of war cinema. Paradoxically, this only draws attention to how little of its world feels historically or morally embedded in 1945. There are numerous anachronisms throughout – in dialogue, in etiquette, in character. And the actors struggle to bridge the cultural and temporal gap between their own 21st century existence and the reality of 1945. They have the knowledge, of course, but it registers as historical knowledge, not as lived experience. Russell Crowe ultimately gives Hermann Göring the formidable weight required for the character, especially in the final courtroom scene – the film's highlight – but accepting him as a native German-speaker requires a fair amount of concession.