Filmmakers for the Prosecution

Name: Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: January 27, 2023
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Alexander Zöller, Axel Fischer, Budd Schulberg, Eli Rosenbaum, Niklas Frank

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: January 27, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexander Zöller, Axel Fischer, Budd Schulberg, Eli Rosenbaum, Niklas Frank, Sandra Schulberg, Stuart Liebman, Sylvie Lindeperg, Victor Barbat, Yves Beigbeder

Summary: Adapted from Sandra Schulberg’s monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood – brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg – serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in theAdapted from Sandra Schulberg’s monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood – brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg – serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five years after the trial, French journalist and filmmaker Jean-Christophe Klotz returns to the German salt mines where films lay burning, uncovers never-before-seen footage, and interviews key figures to unravel why the resulting film about the trial – Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today by Stuart Schulberg – was intentionally buried by the U.S. Department of War. Klotz’s riveting film also fills in the gaps of how these groundbreaking materials were sourced, and poses still-pertinent questions about documentarians’ obligations to posterity. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Jean-Christophe Klotz

Genre(s): History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 58 min

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Justin Chang

Feb 3, 2023

The movie is, like so many Nuremberg accounts, an alternately thrilling and chastening portrait of accountability in action. But it is also, as its title suggests, a thoughtful appraisal of the moral properties of the moving image. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jan 26, 2023

[A] fleet, gripping documentary. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Jan 26, 2023

It’s all a reminder of the labor and risks that go into creating and preserving essential imagery of the past, even for the most notorious events in history. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 26, 2023

The most interesting portion of this film is footage itself, much of it quite grim, and the search for these German cannisters of film, seeing snippets of how it was gathered up and edited by editor, actor and later director Robert Parrish, among others (mentioned in a letter of Stuart Schulberg’s read in voice over) and was used in the Nuremberg court. Read full review

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