The Memory of Justice
- Released on
- Runtime
- 278 mins
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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Cast
- Albert Speer
- Karl Dönitz
- Adolf Hitler
- Hermann Göring
- Herta Oberheuser
- Noël Favrelière
- Telford Taylor
- Jacques Pâris de Bollardière
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Edgar Faure
- Beate Klarsfeld
- Serge Klarsfeld
- Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff
- Joan Baez
- Johanna Hofer
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Henri Alleg
- Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
- Robert Jay Lifton
- G.M. Gilbert
- Eugen Kogon
- Alexander Mitscherlich
- Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen
- Ferdinand Porsche
- Edward Sowders
Director
- Marcel Ophüls
Producers
- Marcel Ophüls
