Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann. It features Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift. Set in Nuremberg, West Germany, the film depicts a fictionalized versionwith fictional charactersof the Judges' Trial of 1947, one of the twelve Nuremberg Military Tribunals conducted under the auspices of the U.S. military in the aftermath of World War II.
Plot
Judgment at Nuremberg centers on a military tribunal convened in Nuremberg, Germany, in which four German judges and prosecutors stand accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime.
Awards
Cast
- Alan Baxter
- Ben Wright
- Bernard Kates
- Bess Flowers
- Burt Lancaster
- Colin Kenny
- Ed Nelson
- Edward Binns
- Harold Miller
- Herman Hack
- Howard Caine
- Jana Taylor
- John Clarke
- John Wengraf
- Joseph Bernard
- Joseph Crehan
- Judy Garland
- Karl Swenson
- Kenneth MacKenna
- Marlene Dietrich
- Martin Brandt
- Maximilian Schell
- Montgomery Clift
- Olga Fabian
- Otto Waldis
- Paul Vincenz Busch
- Ray Teal
- Reed Howes
- Richard Widmark
- Spencer Tracy
- Torben Meyer
- Virginia Christine
- Werner Klemperer
- William H. O'Brien
- William Shatner