Overview
- Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the film in the U.S. and Canada following a TIFF premiere that drew a four-minute standing ovation.
- Critics single out Russell Crowe’s charismatic Göring and the tense psychological sparring with Rami Malek, even as some reviews fault familiar courtroom beats.
- Michael Shannon portrays Robert H. Jackson as the prosecution builds the unprecedented war-crimes tribunal, with Richard E. Grant, John Slattery and Leo Woodall in support.
- Production shot in Budapest and staged extended single-take courtroom sequences; Walden Media helped revive the project after multiple financing collapses.
- The PG-13 film incorporates archival concentration-camp footage after internal debate over scope and audience impact.