In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.
Acting
Crowe's Göring is grotesque charisma incarnate.
Production
Prison sets so authentic you feel the cold.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes historical record.
Director
James Vanderbilt
Rami Malek
Douglas Kelley
Russell Crowe
Hermann Göring
Michael Shannon
Justice Robert H. Jackson
Leo Woodall
Sergeant Howie Triest
John Slattery
Colonel Burton Andrus
Richard E. Grant
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
Mark O'Brien
Colonel John Amen
Colin Hanks
Dr. Gustave Gilbert
Wrenn Schmidt
Elsie Douglas
Andreas Pietschmann
Rudolf Hess
Lydia Peckham
Lila McQuaide
Lotte Verbeek
Emmy Göring
Dieter Riesle
Julius Streicher
Peter Jordan
Karl Dönitz
Tom Keune
Robert Ley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rami Malek studied actual 1945 psychiatric interview transcripts; some dialogue is verbatim from Kelley's recordings. SpoilerLevel: FREE
The real Kelley died by suicide in 1958, haunted by his proximity to Nazi psychology—a fate the film deliberately mirrors in its structure. SpoilerLevel: HEAVY
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