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NUREMBERG: Its Lesson for Today

Presented by Belcourt Theatre at Belcourt Theatre

January 20-January 25, 2012

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The 2009 Schulberg/Waletzsky Restoration
80min, B&W, 35mm
Friday thru Tuesday, January 20-24
Showtimes TBA on the Monday prior.

 

Post-Film Q&A: Saturday, January 21st at TBA
Sandra Schulberg, producer of the film's restoration and daughter of filmmaker Stuart Schulberg, will be present for Q&A following a screening on Saturday, January 21. Her attendance is being underwritten by European Studies and Film Studies programs at Vanderbilt University.

NUREMBERG was written and directed by Stuart Schulberg, a veteran of John Ford’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Field Photographic Branch/War Crimes Unit that was charged in 1945 with locating Nazi film evidence to be shown in the courtroom at Nuremberg. The film shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the Nazis’ own films and records. The trial established the “Nuremberg Principles,” laying the foundation for all subsequent trials for crimes against the peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Its original release was suppressed by the US government. A Washington Post story headlined “Army Reluctant To Clarify Inaction On Nuernberg Film” (September 19, 1949), interpreted the Pentagon’s opposition as follows: “…there are those in authority in the United States who feel that Americans are so simple that they can hate only one enemy at a time. Forget the Nazis, they advise, and concentrate on the Reds.” Concern about whether the film might turn Americans against the rebuilding of Germany, a policy that was integral to the Marshall Plan, seems to have been played a role as well.

“Nuremberg, meticulously brought back to life by Sandra Schulberg & Josh Waletzky, shines an important and fascinating light on the events at Nuremberg….it compels us as much because of its complicated and fascinating history as for what it has to show...” — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times