Nuremberg Trials (film)

The judgment of the nations ( original Russian title Суд Народов, Sud narodow ) is a 1946 documentary film about the Soviet incurred Nuremberg Trials of the major war criminals. In the English version, this documentary as The Nuremberg Trials / Judgement of the People. Nuremberg titled. The rotated during the major war criminals recordings were used not only for the Soviet documentation, the Court of peoples, but also for the American Documentation Nuremberg and his teaching and newsreels.

The director Roman Karmen, a front- Rapporteur of the Red Army, shows in this film about the representation of the process happening addition, footage from Nazi Germany and Nazi war crimes. On March 13, 1947, the premiere of the film in East Berlin took place in Germany and on May 24, 1947 in New York City. Awarded by the Sovexportfilm to cinemas in the Soviet Occupation Zone movie, " demonstrated a modern, the intentions of the Soviet foreign policy in the early postwar period adequate cinematic representation of an internationally -important event. " The different evaluation of the film reflected in a contemporary statement contradicts:

" While the newsreels produced under Anglo- American license ' world in the movie and filmed the final report of the trial were mostly limited to a distant shorthand -reporting from the courtroom, is here through juxtapositions and faded image sequences from earlier German newsreels as well as from Russian image reports of the conquest of Berlin, from the rise of the Russian army, of the liberation of the concentration camps reached an extension of the scene.

In place of a general political line pursued reporting the occur with a certain pathetic dialectic put forward political program, which gave direct effect on placarding an active ideological ideology. It is the same methodology that we know from the already presented in Berlin led Russian documentaries. It derives from the early Russian Revolution films, and it shows that in this type of film consistently a cinematic tradition continues, which was abandoned in the filmed entertainment in favor of a bourgeois conventional representation.

The effects that can be achieved through this clear and programmatic cinematic diction, are strong. The question remains, however, whether they are also sustainable. "

Copies of the film are in the film archive of the Federal Archives.