Deadline recently unveiled the first images from the World War II movie Nuremberg, which is based on Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. It’s led by Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, and the film will explore a military psychiatrist’s story about evaluating the captive Nazi leaders. Director and writer James Vanderbilt spoke to Deadline regarding the inspiration behind making the film, in which he said;
“I learned about the Nuremberg trials in school, so I knew the basic facts. But as soon as I read about the relationship between these two men, I was really attracted to the idea of telling a personal story between them and how they collided at this crossroads in history,” said Vanderbilt.
He added, “I took it all on faith, that of course the Nuremberg trials had happened, that justice was done. Both my grandfathers fought in the war. I had many friends whose grandparents were in the camps. But when I talked to my kids about World War II, it was like talking to them about the American Revolution. It is so much further removed from their generation. It felt like a great opportunity to tell a story that brings these events back to life and says, ‘This wasn’t at all a fait accompli.’”
The official synopsis for Nuremberg reads: “American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, tasked with determining whether Nazi prisoners are fit to stand trial for their war crimes, finds himself in a complex battle of wits with Hitler’s right-hand man Hermann Göring.”
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