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Release year: 2025

Storyline

A WWII psychiatrist evaluates Nazi leaders before the Nuremberg trials, growing increasingly obsessed with understanding evil as he forms a disturbing bond with Hermann Göring.

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Directors

James Vanderbilt

Writers

Cast

Rami Malek — Douglas Kelley
Russell Crowe — Hermann Göring
Michael Shannon — Justice Robert H. Jackson
Leo Woodall — Sergeant Howie Triest

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Did you know

• As depicted in the film, Hermann Göring was among 12 members of the Nazi high command sentenced to death by hanging, but took his own life by ingesting a cyanide capsule shortly before his scheduled execution. The film never explains how he gets the cyanide into his cell, but in 2005, a confession by a former guard stationed at the prison Göring was held offered one plausible answer. The guard said that a German girl he'd met, named "Mona", fooled him into passing Göring the poison in a small glass vial she claimed was medicine. Göring himself, however, left a note for the prison commander saying that none of the guards were responsible, and in fact he had smuggled the cyanide into his cell in a jar of hair cream. Göring also claimed he would've allowed the Allies to execute him, with the exception it be by firing squad, which he called "a soldierly death", refusing to accept the "humiliation" of being hanged.

• Much of Robert Jackson's cross-examination of Hermann Goring is presented verbatim from the actual record of the trial.

• The real Robert Jackson was opposed to the death penalty, a position he agreed to defer to the tribunal's judgment. Furthermore the tribunal deliberately chose death by hanging over firing squad to express contempt at the military defendants.