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Controversial ...
NUREMBERG
to Have Its Long-Overdue U.S. Theatrical Premiere
Newly Restored Print
Opens Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 at Film Forum - NYC
Film Forum is proud to present the US theatrical premiere of NUREMBERG [The Schulberg/ Waletzky Restoration], beginning Wednesday, September 29.
How is it that the Allies’ own film of the greatest courtroom drama of all time – the 1945 Nuremberg trial of top Nazi war criminals – never played in U.S. theaters?
Sandra Schulberg and Josh Waletzky have masterfully restored this historic movie (after U.S. officials suppressed the film and the negative and soundtrack were lost or destroyed), originally directed by Schulberg’s father and commissioned by Pare Lorentz. The restoration team reconstructed the musical score and Liev Schreiber re-recorded the narration.
The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (Nov 20, 1945 – Oct 1, 1946), the first major trial to prosecute crimes against humanity, addressed questions of guilt and complicity in unimaginable atrocities.
The film captures the defendants in their own words, admitting only to “certain excesses” and “abuses.” Intended as an historical endpoint, an object lesson for future generations, Nuremberg has since become, tragically, a prototype for tribunals convened to prosecute genocides around the world.
NUREMBERG will be screened as a special event at this year’s New York Film Festival on Tuesday, September 28. It is presented at Film Forum with generous support from the Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Film.
NUREMBERG will have a one-week engagement, September 29 - October 5, at Film Forum, West Houston Street (w. of 6th Avenue), with screenings daily at 1:00, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8:00 and 10:00.
During WWII, Marine Corps Sgt. Stuart Schulberg (1922-1979) served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Field Photographic Branch, headed by Hollywood director John Ford. In the summer of 1945, he was sent to Europe to hunt for Nazi film that could be used at the Nuremberg trial. His older brother Budd Schulberg followed, and led a team of editors and writers.
Subsequently Stuart wrote and directed NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY, the government’s official documentary of the trial. During the 1960s he was co-producer of David Brinkley’s Journal for NBC, and worked extensively with John Chancellor, Ed Newman, Robert MacNeil and other top television journalists.
He collaborated with his brother on the television and Broadway musical adaptations of Budd’s novel What Makes Sammy Run? and on the TV special, From The Ashes: The Angry Voices of Watts, featuring African-American members of the Watts Writers Workshop.
NUREMBERG (1948/2009, 78 mins.) Original version
Written & Directed by Stuart Schulberg. Editor: Joseph Zigman. Producers: Stuart Schulberg & Pare Lorentz. Production Supervisor: Eric Pommer, U.S. Office of Military Government. Musical Score: Hans-Otto Borgmann.
Restoration by Sandra Schulberg & Josh Waletzky. Executive Producer: Leon Constantiner. Narrator: Liev Schreiber. Senior Archival Researcher: Elisabeth Hartjens. Score Reconstruction: John Califra. A production of Schulberg Productions and Metropolis Productions. USA.
In English & German with English subtitles.
ADDENDUM_____________________
NUREMBERG Q&As
The Village East Cinema (NYC) is proud to present NUREMBERG starting today, October 8th. The Village East will host a series of Q&As following the 5:15 PM and 7:45 PM screenings of the film. A schedule of speakers can be seen below and more information about the film can be seen HERE.
Schedule of Q&As:
Friday, October 8th: Ernest Michel - Auschwitz survivor who covered Nuremberg trial for German news agency
Saturday, October 9th: Josh Waletzky - Co-Creator of the NUREMBERG Restoration
Sunday, October 10th: David Tolbert, President International Center for Transitional Justice and former Deputy Chief Prosecutor International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Monday, October 11th: Stuart Liebman - Holocaust Studies scholar & CUNY professor
Tuesday, October 12th: Kelly Askin - Soros Foundation Justice Initiative & expert on role of women at Nuremberg trial
Wednesday, October 13th: Pamela Yates - Co-Founder IJ Central & Director of THE RECKONING about the Intl Criminal Court
Thursday, October 14th: TBA
City Cinemas Village East
181-189 Second Ave.
New York, NY 10003
(212) 529-6998
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Controversial ...
NUREMBERG
to Have Its Long-Overdue U.S. Theatrical Premiere
Newly Restored Print
Opens Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 at Film Forum - NYC
Film Forum is proud to present the US theatrical premiere of NUREMBERG [The Schulberg/ Waletzky Restoration], beginning Wednesday, September 29.
How is it that the Allies’ own film of the greatest courtroom drama of all time – the 1945 Nuremberg trial of top Nazi war criminals – never played in U.S. theaters?
Sandra Schulberg and Josh Waletzky have masterfully restored this historic movie (after U.S. officials suppressed the film and the negative and soundtrack were lost or destroyed), originally directed by Schulberg’s father and commissioned by Pare Lorentz. The restoration team reconstructed the musical score and Liev Schreiber re-recorded the narration.
The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (Nov 20, 1945 – Oct 1, 1946), the first major trial to prosecute crimes against humanity, addressed questions of guilt and complicity in unimaginable atrocities.
The film captures the defendants in their own words, admitting only to “certain excesses” and “abuses.” Intended as an historical endpoint, an object lesson for future generations, Nuremberg has since become, tragically, a prototype for tribunals convened to prosecute genocides around the world.
NUREMBERG will be screened as a special event at this year’s New York Film Festival on Tuesday, September 28. It is presented at Film Forum with generous support from the Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Film.
NUREMBERG will have a one-week engagement, September 29 - October 5, at Film Forum, West Houston Street (w. of 6th Avenue), with screenings daily at 1:00, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8:00 and 10:00.
During WWII, Marine Corps Sgt. Stuart Schulberg (1922-1979) served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Field Photographic Branch, headed by Hollywood director John Ford. In the summer of 1945, he was sent to Europe to hunt for Nazi film that could be used at the Nuremberg trial. His older brother Budd Schulberg followed, and led a team of editors and writers.
Subsequently Stuart wrote and directed NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY, the government’s official documentary of the trial. During the 1960s he was co-producer of David Brinkley’s Journal for NBC, and worked extensively with John Chancellor, Ed Newman, Robert MacNeil and other top television journalists.
He collaborated with his brother on the television and Broadway musical adaptations of Budd’s novel What Makes Sammy Run? and on the TV special, From The Ashes: The Angry Voices of Watts, featuring African-American members of the Watts Writers Workshop.
NUREMBERG (1948/2009, 78 mins.) Original version
Written & Directed by Stuart Schulberg. Editor: Joseph Zigman. Producers: Stuart Schulberg & Pare Lorentz. Production Supervisor: Eric Pommer, U.S. Office of Military Government. Musical Score: Hans-Otto Borgmann.
Restoration by Sandra Schulberg & Josh Waletzky. Executive Producer: Leon Constantiner. Narrator: Liev Schreiber. Senior Archival Researcher: Elisabeth Hartjens. Score Reconstruction: John Califra. A production of Schulberg Productions and Metropolis Productions. USA.
In English & German with English subtitles.
ADDENDUM_____________________
NUREMBERG Q&As
The Village East Cinema (NYC) is proud to present NUREMBERG starting today, October 8th. The Village East will host a series of Q&As following the 5:15 PM and 7:45 PM screenings of the film. A schedule of speakers can be seen below and more information about the film can be seen HERE.
Schedule of Q&As:
Friday, October 8th: Ernest Michel - Auschwitz survivor who covered Nuremberg trial for German news agency
Saturday, October 9th: Josh Waletzky - Co-Creator of the NUREMBERG Restoration
Sunday, October 10th: David Tolbert, President International Center for Transitional Justice and former Deputy Chief Prosecutor International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Monday, October 11th: Stuart Liebman - Holocaust Studies scholar & CUNY professor
Tuesday, October 12th: Kelly Askin - Soros Foundation Justice Initiative & expert on role of women at Nuremberg trial
Wednesday, October 13th: Pamela Yates - Co-Founder IJ Central & Director of THE RECKONING about the Intl Criminal Court
Thursday, October 14th: TBA
City Cinemas Village East
181-189 Second Ave.
New York, NY 10003
(212) 529-6998
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