"Unlike previous films about the high-stakes trial, Vanderbilt's film is not a courtroom drama, but rather a psychological thriller based on Jack El-Hai's nonfiction book "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist." "Nuremberg" focuses on the interviews between Goring (Crowe) commander in chief of the Luftwaffe and the Reich's second-most powerful man, behind only Hitler and Army psychologist Lt. Col. Douglas Kelley (Malek), who must determine whether the Nazi leader is mentally fit to stand trial."
"Kelley is young, ambitious and fascinated by the nature of evil. "What if we could dissect evil?" he asks early on. "What makes the Germans different from us?" Spoiler alert: not much. In his own book, "22 Cells in Nuremberg," Kelley concluded that the Nazis on trial, including Goring, were ordinary men ambitious and cruel narcissists, perhaps, but not psychopaths and warned that the capacity for Nazi-level evil is not uniquely German, but present in every society, including America's."
The film reframes the Nuremberg trial as a psychological thriller centered on interviews between Hermann Goring and Army psychologist Lt. Col. Douglas Kelley. Kelley must assess whether Goring is mentally fit to stand trial while probing the roots of evil. Kelley concludes that the Nazi defendants were ordinary men—ambitious, cruel, and narcissistic rather than clinical psychopaths—and warns that the capacity for mass atrocities exists across societies. The production casts high-profile actors and emphasizes slick, showy performances. The historical Nuremberg trials (November 20, 1945–October 1, 1946) prosecuted top Nazi leaders and affirmed principles of international law and accountability.
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