Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Directed by Stanley Kramer
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
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The film's central dramatic twist is also somewhat unsatisfying, and other films -- like Judgment at Nuremberg and The Night Porter -- have tackled the consequences of Naziism and the intertwining of sex and power in post-war Germany with much greater skill and vision.
Fox is very attractive, of course, but she gets little opportunity to do anything but run around and look concerned, and the director’s use of close-ups of her and LaBeouf (especially one near the beginning where he has Ben Seresin’s camera whirling around them as though they were redoing a scene from “Judgment at Nuremberg”) is oppressive.