A WWII psychiatrist evaluates Nazi leaders before the Nuremberg trials, growing increasingly obsessed with understanding evil as he forms a disturbing bond with Hermann Göring.
At the end of WWII, after Adolf Hitler and many of his high command officers committed suicide, the allied countries wanted to put the mess of the war behind them. After millions lost their lives to a genocide of unspeakable proportions, several governments came together to put on an unprecedented trial that would challenge international law. As the Nuremberg trials (as they would come to be known) are set to begin, a U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) gets locked in a dramatic psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe). Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon) is a lead prosecutor in the case and relies on Kelley’s instincts to persuade Göring to admit certain criminal activities and assist in how to cross-examine the Nazi leader best. Richard E. Grant, as British lawyer David Maxwell Fyfe, take the courtroom scenes to higher ground, tearing Göring down with carefully crafted monologues. The potent performances by Crowe and Malek ignite this bracingly relevant historical courtroom drama.
USA 2025 James Vanderbilt 148m
