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Nuremberg
Nuremberg is a 2025 American psychological thriller historical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by James Vanderbilt. Based on the 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai. The film is now playing in theatres.
Visiting two friends yesterday, I mentioned how I rarely go to new movies these days as there is little I care to see. And, as I had stopped voting for the Oscars, I am not longer obliged to watch everything. Yet when I read of the new film, Nuremberg, knew this was one film experience I would risk seeing. My friend said she would like to see it, too, and was free this evening. So, three friends drove in the now 4-day heavy rain to see the evening performance, 40 minutes away from Ojai, CA.
Vanderbilt, writer, director, & producer, has written a well-researched and brilliant screenplay about the Nuremberg trials in 1946. The brilliance was how he personalized the known collective event through the unique relationship between Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering (Russell Crowe) and the Army psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley (Rami Malik). Here a story we had never known before. We sat and watched the 2 ½ hour black and white film and was never bored for even 1 minute.
I predict that Nuremberg will receive at least 6 or 7 Oscar nominations – including Best Picture.
Recommend that you see this film on the big screen…in theatres. A memorable film that achieves that rare experience the 5th C. Greeks knew: carthesis (‘purification’ or ‘cleansing’, to the purification and purgation of thoughts and emotions by way of expressing them. The desired result is an emotional state of renewal and restoration.)
My friends and I quietly left the theatre. The torrential rain had subsided into a small drizzle, and as we drove the 40 minutes home, no one spoke.
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