(I’m using the British spelling).
I seem to have gone through a few World War II movies in the past few weeks. This is, of course, another one.
Set not long after Germany’s fall, this film is about the trial of four judges who are on trial for their part in sending people to their death in Germany’s concentration camps
What was very interesting was how even the character we all believe might actually be reasonably innocent isn’t necessarily so, but, you can almost understand why he did what he did. And how no one seems to have known of the concentration camps existence, and what went on there.
The footage of the concentration camps was really quite sickening – it has been played many times, and films like Schindler’s List show it well too. It never ceases to shock though.
The film itself, however, even though long, didn’t really feel like it was dragging on too much.
I give it 8/10