I think this movie may very well be considered for the best movie of the year. It portrays the trial of the Nazi leadership at Nuremberg. It made a great Veteran's Day activity. It is about the relationship and interviews between Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) and the military psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek). Göring was the number two leader of Germany behind Adolf Hitler. Kelley is trying to get him to open up. He even visits his wife and child for him, and carries letters. The relationship comes to a head after the showing of a film about the holocaust, and the way the Jews were treated. There is a very emotional scene when Kelley confronts him.
There were actually 22 men on trial at Nuremberg. One suicided, and eleven were sentenced to death, including Göring. However Göring missed the gallows by eating a cyanid capsule the day before.
Another very emotional scene is when the sergeant who interprets for Kelley Sergeant Howie Triest (Leo Woodall) admits that he in fact is Jewish; a German Jew. He escaped just before the borders were closed. There was only enough money for one to travel. His parents and younger sister stayed behind. His parents were killed in the holocaust. His sister made it out of the country and was still alive.
A member of the supreme court, Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon) was called upon to prosecute for the Americans. Kelley thought that Göring would be able to escape the hang man's noose by out witting Jackson. He told this to a journalist, Lila (Lydia Peckham) when he was drunk. As a result he is fired an sent home. But he stays for the rest of the trial, and is able to give some needed insight to Jackson. The case hangs in the balance, saying he didn't know people were eliminating the Jews. His order he reinterprets to mete complet solution rather than final solution. However when the prosecutor from England, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe (Richard E. Grant) is able to get Göring to praise Hitler, the cards are played.
