The judgment of the peoples

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Movie
German title The judgment of the peoples
Original title Sud Narodow
Country of production Soviet Union
Publishing year 1946
length 62 minutes
Rod
Director Roman Karmen , Jelisaveta Swilowa
production Central Studio for Documentary Films, Moscow
music A. Gran
camera Roman Karmen, Boris Makaseev, Sergei Semjonow, Viktor Schtatland, J. Stalmakov

The Tribunal of the Peoples ( Russian original title Суд Народов , Sud narodow ) is a 1946 Soviet documentary film about the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals . In the English version, this documentation is called The Nuremberg Trials / Judgment of the People. Titled Nuremberg . The recordings made during the trial of the main war criminals were not only used for the Soviet documentary The Court of the Peoples , but also for the American documentary Nuremberg and its teaching and newsreels.

In this film, the director Roman Karmen, a front-line reporter for the Red Army , shows recordings from Nazi Germany and National Socialist war crimes as well as depicting the process . On March 13, 1947, the film premiered in East Berlin in Germany and on May 24, 1947 in New York City . The film, which was given to cinemas in the Soviet occupation zone by Sovexportfilm , “demonstrated a modern cinematic representation of an internationally extremely important event that was in keeping with the intentions of Soviet foreign policy in the early post-war period.” The different evaluations of the film are reflected in a contemporary statement:

“While the newsreel 'Welt im Film', produced under an English-American license, and the final filmed report from the court hearing were mainly limited to a distant shorthand report from the courtroom, this is illustrated by juxtapositions and faded-in image sequences from earlier German newsreels and from Russian photo reports from the conquest of Berlin, from the advance of the Russian army, from the liberation of the concentration camps, an expansion of the scene was achieved.

Instead of reporting following the general political line, there is a political program presented with a certain pathetic dialectic, the posting of an active ideology aimed at immediate effect. It is the same methodology that is used in the Russian documentaries already shown in Berlin. It is derived from the early Russian revolutionary films, and it shows that this film genre consistently continues a cinematic tradition that was abandoned in entertainment films in favor of a bourgeois, conventional representation.

The effects achieved through this clear and programmatic cinematic diction are powerful. The question remains, however, whether they are just as sustainable. "

- Karl Walther Kluger : Der Tagesspiegel from March 21, 1947

Copies of the film can be found in the film archive of the Federal Archives .

literature

  • Kurt Kersten: Nürnberg im Film , in: Aufbau (New York, NY), Volume 13, No. 12, June 6, 1947
  • Soviet films in Germany 1945–1948 . Press and advertising service of Sovexportfilm GmbH, Berlin (ed.), Berlin / East: Berliner Verlag GmbH, 1949
  • Franz Goldstein (as: Frango): At the Cinema. Nazi Flashbacks , in: The Palestine Post (Jerusalem), Vol. 25, No. 7118, September 19, 1949
  • Films of Peace. The Soviet film in the struggle for peace . Berlin / East: Deutscher Filmverlag, 1950
  • Roman Karmen: About the epoch and me , in: Film studies contributions (Berlin / East), No. 1, 1975
  • Günter Agde: Judicial films about Nuremberg 1946.Sud narodow (SU 1946, D: Roman Karmen, Jelisaweta Swilowa) Nuremberg and his apprenticeship (USA / D 1948, D: Stuart Schulberg) , in: Filmblatt (Berlin), vol. 7, no . 18, winter / spring 2002
  • Goergen, Jeanpaul: Atrocity films' - Enlightenment through horror , in: Filmblatt (Berlin), vol. 10, no. 28, autumn 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry under Sud narodow in the cinematography of the Holocaust
  2. ↑ Nuremberg and its teaching ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.film-suche.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.film-suche.de
  3. ↑ Brandenburg State Center for Political Education : The Nuremberg Trial
  4. ↑ Quoted in: Klaus Marxen , Annette Weinke : Staging of the right: show trials, media trials and trial films in the GDR . BWV Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8305-1243-0 , p. 109.
  5. ↑ Quoted in: Brandenburg State Center for Political Education : The Nuremberg Trial