James Vanderbilt’s “Nuremberg” may be set nearly 80 years ago, but the filmmakers and cast believe its message resonates as much today as it did in the aftermath of World War II. The courtroom thriller dramatizes the first international tribunal against surviving Nazi leaders, probing not only their crimes but also the nature of evil itself.
The ensemble features Oscar winner Rami Malek as Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, tasked with evaluating Nazi war criminals; Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring, Hitler’s second-in-command; John Slattery as a U.S. officer; Richard E. Grant as one of the tribunal judges; and Michael Shannon as Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, the chief U.S.
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