Overview
- Sony Classics Pictures has slated the film for US theatrical release in November 2025 to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials.
- The drama adapts Jack El-Hai’s Der Nazi und der Psychiater, depicting Kelley’s months-long psychiatric sessions with high-ranking Nazi defendants.
- Rami Malek portrays Douglas M. Kelley and Russell Crowe takes on Hermann Göring, supported by Michael Shannon as prosecutor Robert H. Jackson, with Andreas Pietschmann and Colin Hanks in key roles.
- James Vanderbilt directs his second feature after Truth, with principal photography completed in Hungary in 2024.
- The Nuremberg trials began on November 20, 1945, establishing the precedent of holding state leaders accountable for war crimes; Göring was sentenced to death before taking his own life.