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Judgment at Nuremberg

Name: Judgment at Nuremberg
Released: 1961-12-18T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 8.0

The event the world will never forget.

1961 • 191 min • ★ 8.0 (978) • Released

Drama History

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

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Original title: Judgment at Nuremberg
Language: EN
Country: US
Budget: $3,000,000
Revenue: $10,000,000

Reviews & Ratings 2

badelf

May 7, 2026 · via TMDB

★ 9.0

> Where were we when Hitler began shrieking his hate in the Reichstag? Where were we when our neighbors were being dragged out in the middle of the night to Dachau? Where were we when every village in Germany has a railroad terminal where cattle cars were filled with children being carried off to their extermination? Where were we when they cried out in the night to us?

CinemaSerf

Apr 20, 2023 · via TMDB

★ 8.0

Spencer Tracy is the presiding judge at the fictitious trial of some of the most evil Nazis to have survived the end of WWII. Chief amongst them is the formidable former jurist "Dr. Ernst Janning" (Burt Lancaster). Richard Widmark is tasked with leading the prosecution; Maximilian Schell as their defender. Make no mistake, this is no standard courtroom melodrama. The performances from all - especially a sensitive and measured Tracy who tries, despite every sense of humanity within himself pulling him otherwise - to remain as impartial and fair in the face of the evidence of brutality presented to him and his fellow judges. There are a couple of wonderful cameo performances from victims of the alleged abuses - notably Judy Garland and Monty Clift with Marlene Dietrich as the widow of a former Nazi general who seems to be in some sort of a daze of denial (we are never quite certain what she did/didn't know). The story challenges the very basis of an independent judiciary and the principles of blind obedience motivated by pure evil, zeal or fear. The use, only once, of actual British footage from a liberated concentration camp is heart-rending and sickening in equal measure. A real must see.

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Cast 39

Spencer Tracy

Dan Haywood

Richard Widmark

Tad Lawson

Maximilian Schell

Hans Rolfe

Burt Lancaster

Ernst Janning

Marlene Dietrich

Mrs. Bertholt

Judy Garland

Irene Hoffman Wallner

Montgomery Clift

Rudolph Petersen

William Shatner

Harrison Byers

Werner Klemperer

Emil Hahn

Kenneth MacKenna

Kenneth Norris

Torben Meyer

Werner Lampe

Alan Baxter

Matt Merrin

Edward Binns

Senator Burkette

Virginia Christine

Mrs. Halbestadt

Otto Waldis

Pohl

Karl Swenson

Heinrich Geuter

Ray Teal

Curtiss Ives

John Wengraf

Karl Wieck

Ben Wright

Halbestadt

Howard Caine

Hugo Wallner

Olga Fabian

Elsa Lindnow

Bernard Kates

Max Perkins

Bess Flowers

Concert Attendee (uncredited)