On this day in movie history – Nuremberg (2025 movie & book):

Nuremberg

directed by James Vanderbilt,

written by James Vanderbilt,

based on the book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai,

released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 7, 2025.

Music by Brian Tyler.

Cast: Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Richard E. Grant, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Colin Hanks, John Slattery, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek, Andreas Pietschmann, Mark O'Brien, Lydia Peckham, Steven Pacey, Roderick Hill, Dan Cade, Paul Antony-Barber, Wolfgang Cerny, Donald Sage Mackay, Tamas Nadas, Alex Diehl, Jeremy Wheeler, Dieter Riesle, Tom Keune, Barney Taylor, Philippe Jacq, Gyula Mesterházy, András Korcsmáros, Billy Rayner, Ralph Berkin, Laura Bóta, Blake Kubena, Wayne Brett, Carl Achleitner, Brett Keating, Laurence Pears, Michael Sheldon, Fleur Bremmer, Sam Newman, Richard Kerékgyártó, Vazul Magyar, Szüle István, Adam Pelyhe, István Áldott.

Recommended reading:

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

By Jack El-Hai.

Published by PublicAffairs.

First published 2013.

ISBN-10: 1610394631

ISBN-13: 9781610394635

Description:

The book is a page turner. – NPR.

In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. Joining him in the detention center were fifty-one senior Nazis, of whom Göring was the dominant figure.

To ensure that the captives were fit for trial at Nuremberg, the US army sent an ambitious army psychiatrist, Captain Douglas M. Kelley, to supervise and evaluate them. To Kelley, it was the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to discover a distinguishing trait among these arch-criminals that would mark them as psychologically different from the rest of humanity. But evil has its charms....