Discover
Adapted from Sandra Schulberg’s monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood – brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg – serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five years after the trial, French journalist and filmmaker Jean-Christophe Klotz returns to the German salt mines where films lay burning, uncovers never-before-seen footage, and interviews key figures to unravel why the resulting film about the trial – Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today by Stuart Schulberg – was intentionally buried by the U.S. Department of War. Klotz’s riveting film also fills in the gaps of how these groundbreaking materials were sourced, and poses still-pertinent questions about documentarians’ obligations to posterity
Original Release
01/06/2021
US Release
01/27/2023
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Victor Barbat | Self - Movie Historian / Self - Film Historian |
Yves Beigbeder | Self - Assistant to the French Judge at Nuremberg / Self - Nuremberg Judge Assistant |
Axel Fischer | Self - Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse / Self - Nuremberg Trials Memorial Curator |
Niklas Frank | Self - Son of Hans Frank / Self - Hans Frank's Son |
Stuart Liebman | Self - Movie Historian |
Sylvie Lindeperg | Self - Historian |
Eli Rosenbaum | Self - Former Director, Office of Special Investigation against War Crimes (US Justice Department) / Self - Former US OSI Director |
Budd Schulberg | Self / Self - Film Researcher (archive footage) |
Sandra Schulberg | Self - Daughter of Stuart Schulberg / Self - Stuart Schulberg's Daughter |
Alexander Zöller | Self - Specialist for visual German Propaganda in Word War II / Self - Film Researcher |
Directors
Writers
Jean-Christophe Klotz, Sandra Schulberg
Cast
Name | Character |
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Victor Barbat | Self - Movie Historian / Self - Film Historian |
Yves Beigbeder | Self - Assistant to the French Judge at Nuremberg / Self - Nuremberg Judge Assistant |
Axel Fischer | Self - Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse / Self - Nuremberg Trials Memorial Curator |
Niklas Frank | Self - Son of Hans Frank / Self - Hans Frank's Son |
Stuart Liebman | Self - Movie Historian |
Sylvie Lindeperg | Self - Historian |
Eli Rosenbaum | Self - Former Director, Office of Special Investigation against War Crimes (US Justice Department) / Self - Former US OSI Director |
Budd Schulberg | Self / Self - Film Researcher (archive footage) |
Sandra Schulberg | Self - Daughter of Stuart Schulberg / Self - Stuart Schulberg's Daughter |
Alexander Zöller | Self - Specialist for visual German Propaganda in Word War II / Self - Film Researcher |
Jessica DiSalvo | Narrator |
K.C. Schulberg | Additional Voiceover |
Benn Schulberg | Additional Voiceover |
Winston Churchill | Self / Self - Politician (archive footage) |
Karl Dönitz | Self / Self - Kriegsmarine Admiral (archive footage) |
John Ford | Self / Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
Hans Frank | Self / Self - Politician (archive footage) |
Joseph Goebbels | Self / Self - Politician (archive footage) |
Hermann Göring | Self / Self - Politician (archive footage) |
Rudolf Hess | Self / Self - Politician (archive footage) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Sandra Schulberg | Producer |
Céline Nusse | Producer |
Paul Rozenberg | Producer |