"All the action takes place in 1945-46, in the aftermath of World War II in Europe. The key setting is a previously bomb-damaged courtroom in Nuremberg, Germany, where an international military tribunal of four judges from the Allied powers-one each from the U.S., Great Britain, the Soviet Union and France-meet to decide the fate of 24 Germans, essentially the top surviving political, military and economic leaders of the Third Reich (Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler are already dead by suicide)."
"Putatively second in line after Hitler, Göring was captured alive by American troops in Austria in May 1945. Like most of the defendants, Göring is unrepentant, defiant, even arrogant toward the court. That stance poses a strategic challenge to the lead American prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon), a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Jackson seeks to establish a legal basis for charging the Nazis in this unprecedented-that word, so familiar to stateside viewers in 2025-criminal case."
"With help from Dr. Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), a U.S. Army psychiatrist brought in to chat up (read: headshrink) Göring and prevent suicides, Jackson and the other Allied prosecutors are able to charge the original Nazi-Göring was a Hitler comrade since the failed "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923-with four offenses: crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity and conspiracy to commit."
A grand, complex film unfolds in 1945-46 in a bomb-damaged Nuremberg courtroom where an international Allied military tribunal convenes to try 24 top surviving Nazi political, military and economic leaders. Hermann Göring, formerly commander of the Luftwaffe, appears as an unrepentant, defiant defendant whose arrogance complicates prosecution strategy. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson leads the American prosecution and, with aid from U.S. Army psychiatrist Dr. Douglas Kelley, pursues unprecedented charges including crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity and conspiracy. The narrative blends war-movie elements, courtroom drama and political moral inquiry about legal foundations and accountability.
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