The read
Audiences rate it 25 points higher than critics do. It runs long at 4h 38m.
Synopsis
This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam. The four-hour epic questions the right of any country to pass self-righteous moral judgements upon the actions of another country.
Ratings
IMDb8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes60%
Audiences rate it 25 points higher than critics do.
19 audience votes
Key crew
- Marcel OphülsDirector
- Marcel OphülsWriter
Cast
- Albert SpeerSelf (archive footage)
- Karl DönitzSelf (archive footage)
- Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
- Hermann GöringSelf (archive footage)
- Herta OberheuserSelf (archive footage)
- Noël FavrelièreSelf
- Telford TaylorSelf
- Jacques Pâris de BollardièreSelf
- Yehudi MenuhinSelf
- Daniel EllsbergSelf
- Edgar FaureSelf
- Beate KlarsfeldSelf
Stills
Themes
vietnam warwar crimesnuremberg trialsalgerian war (1954-62)international court of justiceanti-imperialism