ID

FBW000660      Docudrama

Country / Year

USA, 1959

Original Title

Judgement at Nuremberg

Other Title(s)

Playhouse 90 // Judgement at Nuremberg

Directed by

George Roy Hill

Produced by

CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Herbert Brodkin; Script: Abby Mann

Cast

Claude Rains (Judge Haywood); Maximilian Schell; Paul Lukas (Ernst Janning); Melvyn Douglas (Chief Prosecutor General Parker); Martin Milner (Captain Byers)

Appearance

Telford Taylor (General, Chief US Counsil at Nuremberg)

Length

90'

Format

sw

Dates

- 16 Apr 1959: Premiere, TV, CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System)

Remarks

1. Aus der Reihe "Playhouse 90".

Abstract

Courtroom drama. Film account of the 1947 trial of German judges in Nuremberg. Footage from the liberation of the concentrationcamps is integrated in this docudrama. Telford Taylor (General, Chief US Counsil at Nuremberg) introduces the film with a prologue.

Subject Terms

American zone; Justice; Concentration camps; War criminals; Post-war trials; Nuremberg trial; Trials

Bibliography

- , in: Variety, 02.04.1959
- Leyda, Jay: "Films Beget Films". New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1964
- Ward, Alex: "A Producer of the Provocative: Herbert Brodkin", in: The New York Times, 15.11.1981
- Insdorf, Annette: Indelible Shadows. Film and the Holocaust. New York, NY: Random House, 1983
- Shandler, Jeffrey: While America Watches: Television and the Holocaust in the United States, from 1945 to the Present. New York, NY: Columbia University (Dissertation), 1995
- Shandler, Jeffrey: While America Watches. Televising the Holocaust. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999