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Summary: A bit dreary and very long.
Review: Though some of the acting in this film, particularly that of Alec Baldwin, is very good, the movie tosses and turns and doesn't pack much punch. Most of the film is dedicated to the ideas and concerns behind the decision to hold a trial for Nazi war criminals. Allied Forces are uneven in their decisions, and once a trial is definitely underway, the movie flicks back and forth between Baldwin's extramarital affair with his secretary and the actual trial. I expected riveting scenes of Nazi atrocity, and prepared myself to be spellbound at the unlimited evils human nature is capable of. The movie doesn't get that far, all though there are some very poignant and even some horrifying moments. All in all, it's not very exciting, and it does seem to go on and on. It's a very long movie and too much of it is uninteresting.
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Summary: Absorbing Depiction of Trials Of Nazi ELite!
Review: To the mind of many historical observers, nothing so defines the striking manifest differences between the horrific nature of the Third Reich from the more rational and compassionate constitutional democracies that largely comprised the Allies as the way in which the defendants of the trials at Nuremberg were handled. With painstaking precision (and at extraordinary cost in terms of international arm-twisting and back-door deals), the proponents of a judicial proceeding designed to illustrate the manifest individual guilt of the various Nazi officials forged a result that still stands today as a model of a non-retributive effort in the face of extraordinary pressure. In this carefully reearched and terrifically presented movie depiction of the events, one comes to appreciate the problems facing the Allies in proceeding with the trials. And while one can hardly describe the Nuremberg trials as unflawed or perfect, they did prove to the world that the Allies were willing to subscribe to the existing canon of law to judge the actions of the Nazis. Doing so was anything but easy, Indeed, achieving a fair result that would literally convince the watching world of the guilt of the participants in the war was anything but easy, and moving toward that deliberate goal is a theme providing an interesting theme punctuating the pace of the book. Churchill wanted revenge by way of summary trials and quick retribution, while the Russians just wanted to string up the whole group in a mass hanging. Yet American Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (Alex Baldwin) was able to resolve the differences well enough to proceed, although at times the viewer wonders if the trials will be anything like the fair-minded judicial event he has in mind. Indeed, the back-stabbing, personal ambitions, and petty jealousies of the various factions, trial officials, and individual defendants becomes a kind of political circus that sometimes resembles nothing so much as vaudevillian showboating.
Still, the efforts at conducting a fair and open forum for the world to watch as the prosecution and defense teams clashed before the international tribunal prevailed, and the trials concluded with mixed results in terms of the results. Most of the defendants were found guilty, and many were hanged. Yet few observers doubted that the defendants had had their day in court along with and adequate opportunity to defend their actions to a watching world. Given how little justice and liberty they collectively allowed for their tens of millions of victims, it is remarkable just how civilized and dignified a proceeding the Nuremberg trials were, with all their theatrics and subterranean undercurrents. One marvels at the fact that after fifty years the world still stands in awe at the deliberate, careful, and methodical way in which the Allies achieved the result of a rational and fair trial of the defendants in history's most horrific modern nightmare, the terror of the Third Reich. This is an interesting and absorbing film presentation, and it is fascinating and entertaining to watch. It was also particularly interesting to me because it explores the lives of each of the defendants in looking at their individual guilt. I recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about these singular trials and their impact on history.
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Summary: OK
Review: We just cannot forget that this is a made-for-cable production, a TV production. With that in mind, the film is very nice, giving a general portrait of Nuremberg. Baldwin fives solid performances, but Goering ( Brian Cox ) steals the show. THe only flaw is: for a film that is 169 minutes long, the "moral" of the convicteds could have been more explored and analysed. Keitel and Jodl are almost totally forgotten !!! The real scenes from NAzi camps are amazing, really depressing.
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