Nuremberg (2025)

I liked it. I couldn't help but compare it with our film the year before last, which was turned into some kind of romantic melodrama. Here, such a line is only a minor detail, the emphasis is mainly on the accused and specifically Hermann Goering in conversations with a psychologist in an attempt to reveal his true nature. Goering's personality was indeed remembered, among other things, for his resourcefulness in court. But the approval of the tribunal by the Roman Catholic Church, and in particular by Pope Pius, was remembered only by experts, in contrast to the fact that Hitler supported the latter, so he could not clear his name for history). Everything is quite cinematic and at the same time more or less authentic. The actors are good. True, I like a little bit, but it still stands out a little from the general background).

From the strange details:

There is practically no active Russian prosecutor. As if we can't even be imagined in the movies on the "right" side of history.

The lighting in the hall is so-so, although it was even mentioned that it would be so bright that everyone present would be given dark glasses.

"What do you think the Russians are doing with German prisoners of war?" Goering asks GG. Yes, the same thing that the Americans did to the Japanese. They rebuilt the cities of the ravaged Volga region. Except for the most stubborn butchers. Many later returned to Germany, while others stayed there. They died, yes, but not in the gas chambers and furnaces of concentration camps.

Why does the preface say that "more than 70 million" died during the war? Did they count Europe alone? The USSR and China alone have a combined loss of more than 60 million people. A hundred million is probably closer to the truth. Yes, it's over 70, but somehow... 😅

...I've been sooo waiting for this movie. But the 2000 original starring Brian Cox as Goering is incomparably cooler and deeper.😑

I liked the 2000 miniseries better, it's kind of quite superficial, and the production is too budget-friendly.

Everything I've seen about the Nuremberg Trials has one common problem - they're trying to fit a big story into a tiny timeline. For this reason, all the interesting nuances go under the knife, and only one frame remains.

In a good way, this story needs a 10-hour one-season from someone like HBO, but it's probably going to have to wait another 20 years.

If we discard the almost complete disregard for the participation of the USSR in the process, then it turned out to be a completely suitable film with an entourage appropriate to that era and a strong cast, where Russell Crowe is especially good in the role of Goering. Not a masterpiece, of course, but it deserves above 7 points on IMDB, and now there are not so many such paintings.

I rarely write reviews, but you can't pass by here, in my opinion, the film is extremely weak and doesn't even come close to conveying the spirit of the process itself, which was given very little screen time here, but they didn't spare any time for the mental anguish of the "doctor", for those who are familiar with the original process, except for disappointment, the film will not cause any emotions, instead of the expected the games of talented actors who should masterfully convey the emotions of people who went through the war, I got — "we're all bad, this is war, but no, you're bad more because you're in concentration camps," although probably the fact that there are no blacks or LGBT people in the film can already be considered a success in 2025.

The evolution of Russell Crowe.

"Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews...Jews", there is a lot of exaggerated nonsense and drama, and the Nuremberg trials are used only as a decoration.
Russell Crowe is good. Rami Malik is a caricature.
I don't recommend it.

P.S. Reducing the Second World War to the Holocaust is like saying that the American Civil War was for the freedom of blacks. All this took place, but it did not play a decisive role. And this infamous thing in the movies is just sickening.

It was interesting to me.

"In many years, what will you say about us? Can you even count them as people?" ©

80 years old. And we have not forgiven and we will never forgive. We're talking about you, too, just like we did back then. You're not human, you're monsters.

At one point in the film, when the doctor starts handing over letters from Goering and his family, playing cards with him and teaching him magic tricks, I thought with horror, is this really one of the films that justifies these people? They show their humanity. But thank God I was wrong. The film showed their deceitfulness, manipulativeness, resourcefulness and loyalty to the wrong ideals. In my opinion, Russell Crowe perfectly coped with the role of a combed, smart, but inhuman man, if I may say so.

But overall, I'm not saying that this movie is anything special. Yes, it's necessary and important, and it's not even bad, but it's not a masterpiece at all.

I wondered what had become of Goering's wife and daughter. It turns out that both of them lived for more than 80 years, and their daughter died very recently, in 2018. That's the kind of justice in this world that makes me feel uneasy, even though they don't seem to have anything to do with it, but I can't believe that Goering's wife didn't know where more than 4,000 works of art came from in their house.

Everything was fine until the moment of confession at the train station...half of the movie. And then the action started, and on the contrary, I was counting on judicial toffee, which can also be fascinating...

The attention is not focused on that in the film. I looked and looked, and I couldn't add anything more. Russell Crowe did a great job in the role.