The Memory of Justice
1976•PG•4h 38m•6.8•Released
DocumentaryHistory
This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam. The four-hour epic questions the right of any country to pass self-righteous moral judgements upon the actions of another country.
Director
Marcel Ophüls
Writer
Marcel Ophüls
Languages
German, French, English
Studio
Polytel
Cast
Albert Speer
Self (archive footage)
Karl Dönitz
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Herta Oberheuser
Self (archive footage)
Noël Favrelière
Self
Telford Taylor
Self
Jacques Pâris de Bollardière
Self
Yehudi Menuhin
Self
Daniel Ellsberg
Self
Edgar Faure
Self
Beate Klarsfeld
Self
Serge Klarsfeld
Self
Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff
Self
Joan Baez
Self
Production
Company
Polytel
Company
Visual Programme Systems
Producer
Marcel Ophüls
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