{"id":531862,"date":"2026-03-21T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=531862"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:10:01","slug":"nuremberg-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/nuremberg-review\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abNuremberg, or how to deal with Nazi horrors with dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nuremberg<\/em>, signed by James Vanderbilt, combines many of the shortcomings of our time without subtlety, according to our reviewer. The film is nevertheless in the vein of films that deal with the Second World War without romanticizing it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

There are films that annoy you. And you can't help but enjoy them anyway. They have certain flaws that would be prohibitive if they didn't have other redeeming qualities. Such is the case with Nuremberg<\/em>, released last month, dissects the psyche of Hermann Goering, the most senior Nazi figure to be tried at the Nuremberg trials, played by Russell Crowe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the things that annoy: the Australian actor's fake German accent. There are so many talented German speakers who could have played Goering in Goethe's language. Christoph Waltz would have played him perfectly. In 1961, Judgement at Nuremberg<\/em> (directed by Stanley Kramer) had cast German actors, including the flamboyant Marlene Dietrich as the widow of a general executed by the Allies. In the courtroom, the waltz of performers, judges and defendants became part of the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also read about the same film A mirror held up to our consciences<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

It's also hard to understand the liberties taken with the course of the trial. One of the key scenes is the one in which the British prosecutor traps Goering, after the American prosecutor has got his facts mixed up. The British prosecutor manages to get Goering, who never ceases to proclaim his ignorance of the Final Solution, to say that he had knowingly followed Hitler in spite of everything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American prosecutor was clumsy, and it was the English prosecutor who pushed Goering into a corner, but in a far more subtle way. Sometimes, reality doesn't need a helping hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n