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Right And Justice | Judge
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8.3/10
IMDbBest Actor in a Leading Role | 1962 | Maximilian
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1962 | Abby
Best Foreign Actor Migliore Attore Straniero | 1962 | Spencer
Best Foreign Production Migliore Produzione Straniera | 1962 | Stanley
1962 | Marlene
Motion Picture | 2018
Best Foreign Film Mejor Pelcula Extranjera | 1963
Best Foreign Performer Mejor intrprete de cine extranjero | 1963 | Spencer
Best Foreign Director Regista del Miglior Film Straniero | 1962 | Stanley
Top Ten Films | 1961
Best NonEuropean Film Bedste ikkeeuropiske film | 1962 | Stanley
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration BlackandWhite | 1962
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1962 | Montgomery
Best Film Editing | 1962
Best Picture | 1962 | Stanley
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1962 | Spencer
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1962 | Judy
Best Director | 1962 | Stanley
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1962
Best Costume Design BlackandWhite | 1962
Best Supporting Actor | 1962 | Montgomery
Best Supporting Actress | 1962 | Judy
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1962
Best Film Promoting International Understanding | 1962
Top Cinematography Black and White | 1962
Top Male Supporting Performance | 1962 | Montgomery
Top Female Supporting Performance | 1962 | Judy
Top Male Dramatic Performance | 1962 | Maximilian
Top Drama | 1962
Best Edited Feature Film | 1962
Best Foreign Language Film | 1963 | Stanley
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1962 | Stanley
Best Written American Drama | 1962 | Abby
Best Film | 1961
Budget 3,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 10,000,000 USD
Spencer Tracy's eleven-minute closing speech was filmed in one take using multiple cameras shooting simultaneously.
Marlon Brando wanted to play the role of Hans Rolfe, the German lawyer who defends the German judges. Brando actually approached director Stanley Kramer about it. Although Kramer and screenwriter Abby Mann were very intrigued with the idea of having an actor of Brando's star power in the role, both were so impressed with Maximilian Schell's portrayal of the same part in the original television broadcast Playhouse 90: Judgment at Nuremberg (1959) that they had decided to stick with the relatively unknown Schell, who later won the Oscar for Best Actor for that role.
Maximilian Schell's Oscar for Best Actor makes him the lowest-billed lead category winner in history. He is billed fifth, after Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, and Marlene Dietrich.
The song whose meaning Mrs. Berthold explains to Judge Haywood when they walk past a pub while people in there sing it, is called "Lili Marlene". The song was popular with German and British forces during the war, and was actually recorded by Marlene Dietrich herself in the 1940s and 1950s.
Watching Maximilian Schell shoot a scene one day, Spencer Tracy said to Richard Widmark, "We've got to watch out for that young man. He's very good. He's going to walk away with the Oscar for this picture." This is exactly what happened. In another version of this story, Tracy went up to Widmark and said, "Dick, we're in trouble".
"[last lines] Ernst Janning: Judge Haywood... the reason I asked you to come: Those people, those millions of people... I never knew it would come to that. You *must* believe it, *You must* believe it! Judge Dan Haywood: Herr Janning, it "came to that" the *first time* you sentenced a man to death you *knew* to be innocent."
"Ernst Janning: There was a fever over the land. A fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger. We had a democracy, yes, but it was torn by elements within. Above all, there was fear. Fear of today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our neighbors, and fear of ourselves. Only when you understand that - can you understand what Hitler meant to us. Because he said to us: 'Lift your heads! Be proud to be German! There are devils among us. Communists, Liberals, Jews, Gypsies! Once these devils will be destroyed, your misery will be destroyed.' It was the old, old story of the sacrificial lamb. What about those of us who knew better? We who knew the words were lies and worse than lies? Why did we sit silent? Why did we take part? Because we loved our country! What difference does it make if a few political extremists lose their rights? What difference does it make if a few racial minorities lose their rights? It is only a passing phase. It is only a stage we are going through. It will be discarded sooner or later. Hitler himself will be discarded... sooner or later. The country is in danger. We will march out of the shadows. We will go forward. Forward is the great password. And history tells how well we succeeded, your honor. We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. The very elements of hate and power about Hitler that mesmerized Germany, mesmerized the world! We found ourselves with sudden powerful allies. Things that had been denied to us as a democracy were open to us now. The world said 'go ahead, take it, take it! Take Sudetenland, take the Rhineland - remilitarize it - take all of Austria, take it! And then one day we looked around and found that we were in an even more terrible danger. The ritual began in this courtroom swept over the land like a raging, roaring disease. What was going to be a passing phase had become the way of life. Your honor, I was content to sit silent during this trial. I was content to tend my roses. I was even content to let counsel try to save my name, until I realized that in order to save it, he would have to raise the specter again. You have seen him do it - he has done it here in this courtroom. He has suggested that the Third Reich worked for the benefit of people. He has suggested that we sterilized men for the welfare of the country. He has suggested that perhaps the old Jew did sleep with the sixteen year old girl, after all. Once more it is being done for love of country. It is not easy to tell the truth; but if there is to be any salvation for Germany, we who know our guilt must admit it... whatever the pain and humiliation."