One of the original posters from the 1948 German release of NUREMBERG.
USMC Sergeant Stuart Schulberg, the youngest member of the OSS Field Photo/War Crimes unit, was later hired by the War Department to write and direct Nuremberg.
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BREAKING NEWS
NUREMBERG Premieres at the 48th New York Film Festival
NUREMBERG Opens at the Film Forum September 29, 2010
NUREMBERG Acclaimed at the Jerusalem Film Festival
NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY
[The 2009 Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration]
One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today shows how the four allied prosecution teams — from the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union — built their case against the top Nazi leaders. As documented in the film, the trial established the "Nuremberg principles," laying the groundwork for all subsequent prosecutions, anywhere in the world, for crimes against the peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
The film premiered in The Hague as the centerpiece of the Erasmus Prize ceremonies. In 2009, the Prize was awarded to Ben Ferencz, one of the original Nuremberg prosecutors, who is now 90, and to Antonio Cassese, first President of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and currently President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
The original film was written and directed by Stuart Schulberg, and edited by Joseph Zigman, under the aegis of Pare Lorentz, chief of Film/Theatre/Music at the U.S. War Department, and completed by Schulberg in 1948, under the aegis of Eric Pommer, chief of the Motion Picture Branch of U.S. Military Government in Berlin.
The film makes extensive use of footage from The Nazi Plan and Nazi Concentration Camps, evidentiary films compiled under the supervision of Budd Schulberg, that were presented at the Nuremberg trial.
Schulberg Productions and Metropolis Productions now present the first complete 35mm picture and sound restoration of the U.S. Government's 1948 film about the first Nuremberg trial - the International Military Tribunal.
For upcoming screenings, click here.
Companion Book, The Celluloid Noose
The fascinating untold story of the making of The Nazi Plan and Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today is recounted for the first time in The Celluloid Noose, a forthcoming book by Sandra Schulberg, including eyewitness accounts by Budd Schulberg and Stuart Schulberg.
A condensed version of the book, “Filmmakers for the Prosecution,” will appear in connection with the initial Dutch and U.S. release of Nuremberg.
This is a new site and still under construction. The designer is Israel Ehrisman. New materials will be posted in the coming months. For more information, please contact sschulberg@aol.com.