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1945. American psychiatrist Douglas Kelly begins a series of conversations with Hitler's right-hand man, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring. Kelly wants to find out how the brain of a high-ranking criminal differs from that of other people, but instead becomes very close to Göring.

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Psychiatrist Kelly arrives in Nuremberg to “assess the readiness of Nazi criminals for trial.” What does that even mean? Medium rare? What if they're not ready? Will they be released? Or will they be kept there a little longer? In addition, he wants to “dissect the nature of evil” and earn money by publishing a bestseller about his conversations with Göring. Alive. Dead will increase sales.

Director Vanderbilt adapted El-Hay's book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist for the screen. Psychiatrist Kelly actually worked with Nazis and wrote a book that did not gain popularity among Western readers. After analyzing German Nazism, Kelly warned of the danger of the spread of American Nazism. Democratically minded American Nazis did not like the prophecy, and Kelly was gently and democratically plunged into the anus of the information vacuum, creating an atmosphere of silence around his book.

Thus, Nuremberg is not just a report on the trial of the Nazis, it is a film warning that Göring's ideas are alive and popular.

The film does not show combat operations, and even the trial itself is shown only in fragments. There are only a couple of episodes featuring a gloomy and inept American prosecutor (Shannon). The whole point is the confrontation between Kelly and Göring. Kelly imagines himself to be an experienced, perceptive, all-seeing mastermind. He believes that he will easily crack open the Reich Marshal's skull and force him, choking, sniveling, and crying, to cry on Uncle Sam's warm vest.

Playing mind games with Goering, Kelly missed the moment when Goering's mind began to play games with him, with Kelly. A role reversal takes place. The hunter becomes the prey. Goering is played by Russell Crowe. The actor gave himself free rein—on screen, he is 120 kilograms of well-fed Australian beef. And although he does not resemble Göring in appearance, he plays the role very powerfully. He looks at the psychiatrist with the affectionate eyes of a well-fed predator, allowing him to consider himself the master of the situation. I kept waiting for the moment when the Nazi's powerful jaws would close on the doctor's thin neck and bite through his jugular vein.

Rami Malek is the same everywhere. Huge calf eyes, a nervous temperament, the fussy movements of a victim, ready to moo like a calf that has lost its mother. In this film, he smiles like a moron and tries to look brutal - it doesn't work. And the psychiatrist in his character is bad. Like a sly faun, he makes eyes and smiles tenderly at the murderer and war criminal. He shows him tricks, visits his family — how sweet it is to court the daughter of a Nazi bigwig! He wants so badly to please Nazi No. 2! So badly! He couldn't figure anyone out, and Göring openly admits to him that he'll “run away.” As a perceptive doctor, he should have understood that the patient's words shouldn't be taken literally.

Judging by the film, psychiatrists have poor tools at their disposal. There are no techniques in the film except for the tiresome Rorschach tests. Streicher coped with the tests best of all. He sees vaginas everywhere. Oh, no, my mistake! In one case, he says “Jewish vagina.” The position obliges.

Nuremberg does not help to understand the nature of evil. The Nazis look like idiots. Hess is a feeble-minded hysteric, Ley is epileptic, Streicher is a zoological anti-Semite. How could such degenerates seize power and unleash World War II? What motivated Göring? “My honor is called loyalty?” This nonsense is only suitable for fanatics—SS men. Göring is stupid (the unsuccessful trial of Dimitrov clearly confirms this), but not that stupid. Arendt wrote about the banality of evil, referring to Eichmann, an executor, a small fry compared to Göring. Göring is a fat, slippery, evasive rat, confident in his own impunity. He is one of those who does not carry out orders, but gives them. At the Nuremberg trials, he wanted to exploit the contradictions between the Allies and avoid the noose. But this is not shown in the film. There is a lot missing here. The director interprets events one-sidedly, concerned only and exclusively with the fate of the Jews. The other victims of Nazism do not exist for the filmmakers.

This film is a showcase for Russell Crowe. I wonder if the Academy will give him an Oscar for playing a Nazi? If Kelly is to be believed, he is one of their own. One of their own is always... Oscar.

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (51.9 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10+
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

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#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

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