FILMMAKERS FOR THE
PROSECUTION (2022) & NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY (1948)
With Author &
Producer Sandra Schulberg, daughter of Nuremberg director Stuart Schulberg, in
person
Sunday, February 19th
at 2:20 PM
Members $10 | Public
$15
Adapted from Sandra Schulberg’s monograph, Filmmakers
for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for motion picture evidence
used to convict the Nazis at the first Nuremberg trial. 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 later,
French journalist and filmmaker Jean-Christophe Klotz goes 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. (USA/France, 2022, 60min. | Dir.
Jean-Christophe Klotz)
One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, Nuremberg:
Its Lesson for Today shows how the international prosecutors built
their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the Nazis’ own films and
records. The trial established the “Nuremberg principles,” laying the
foundation for all subsequent trials for crimes against the peace, war crimes,
and crimes against humanity (USA, 1948,
80min. | Dir. Stuart Schulberg)
