---
title: 'Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Stanley Kramer'
released: '1961-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 188
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/judgment-at-nuremberg-1961'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055031/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

1961 · 188 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann. It features Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift. Set in Nuremberg, in the then American occupation zone in Germany, the film depicts a fictionalized version – with fictional characters – of the Judges' Trial of 1947, one of the twelve Nuremberg Military Tribunals conducted under the auspices of the U.S. military in the aftermath of World War II.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Stanley Kramer](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-kramer)
- **Producer:** [Stanley Kramer](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-kramer)
- **Screenplay:** [Montgomery Clift](https://cinepixo.com/people/montgomery-clift), [Abby Mann](https://cinepixo.com/people/abby-mann)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ernest Gold](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-gold)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ernest Laszlo](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-laszlo)
- **Editor:** [Frederic Knudtson](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederic-knudtson)

## Cast

- [Bernard Kates](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-kates) as Max Perkins
- [Martin Brandt](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-brandt) as defendant Friedrich Hofstetter
- [Torben Meyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/torben-meyer) as defendant Werner Lampe
- [Edward Binns](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-binns) as Senator Burkette
- [Joseph Crehan](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-crehan)
- [Olga Fabian](https://cinepixo.com/people/olga-fabian) as Mrs. Elsa Lindnow, witness in Feldenstein case
- [Alan Baxter](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-baxter) as Brig. Gen. Matt Merrin
- [Herman Hack](https://cinepixo.com/people/herman-hack)
- [William H. O'Brien](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-h-o-brien)
- [Ed Nelson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-nelson)
- [Colin Kenny](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-kenny)
- [Kenneth MacKenna](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-mackenna) as Judge Kenneth Norris
- [Judy Garland](https://cinepixo.com/people/judy-garland) as Irene Hoffmann
- [William Shatner](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-shatner) as Captain Harrison Byers
- [Reed Howes](https://cinepixo.com/people/reed-howes)

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