Overview

At the end of 1945, the Nuremberg trials against Göring, Hess, von Ribbentrop and other Nazi officials began. The young Jewish reporter Ernst Michel and the witness Seweryna Szmaglewska, both concentration camp survivors, struggle not only with their deep traumas, but also with some uncomfortable insights that the trial brought to light. Carsten Gutschmidt's thoughtful docudrama sensitively interweaves dramatised scenes, flashbacks, colourised original footage and new material in which witnesses and descendants visit the original locations and comment on the action.

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Cast

Jonathan Berlin

Ernst Michel

Katharina Stark

Seweryna Szmaglewska

Wotan Wilke Möhring

Dr. Otto Stahmer

Francis Fulton-Smith

Hermann Göring

Franz Dinda

Willy Brandt

Rony Herman

Bill Stricker

Max Schimmelpfennig

Witold Wiśniewski