This movie is amazing...I have never seen a film with such power, there are not many movies with this psycological, emotional, historical depth...It's brilliant, it delivers it gives people something to think. Wonderful!
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It definitely raises some significant issues.
"Did you make coffee...? Make it!"--Cheyenne.
For a 3 hour movie it's really flying by. judging from a trailer I found I thought the movie would be tedious to sit through. it's mesmerising. I can't wait to watch the rest of it.
~I love the rhythm it is my methoood!~
I agree.
I feared this movie could become dull, since it was three hours long, but it flew by so quickly and pleasantly, I felt sad it had to end. I just wanted it to continue forever.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Schell and Clift made this movie. Schell was almost supporting; I thought Lancaster and Tracy were the leads. But Schell just ate the scenery; he made a non-Nazi Nazi-like and such an opague block of contradictions. In some ways, he could be said to be indicting himself and the German spirit in his defense of Germany. He wouldn't realize that, because it is such a hard character, cold like Saturn. The movie, with those zoom-ins, was just the most concentrated sway of talent-bloated court-drama ever.
shareSchell was absolutely amazing. While I do give credit to all the people in this film I will definitely say hands down Schell is what made me decide to purchase this. :)
Kinich-Ahau / Kukulcan in 2012!
I thought it was a very powerful movie as well. The location in Berlin, 1961--some fifteen years after the war--and it was still devastated. (Though I wonder about use of backdrops to create scenery.) The orginal footage from the day of American Liberation gave an impact that made the film believable; after all, the trial of the judges is a fictional recounting but that fictional recounting is a backdrop to a real historical event of massive proportions. The acting was suberb all around. And I've often thought that Spencer Tracy was a dead ringer for Tom Dodd who was the main prosecutor at Nuremburg and subsequent Senator from Connecticut and father of ex-Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut. It is a very moving motion picture.
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