Sunday, August 13 • 12 noon-4:30 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
on the grounds of the D. Ban and Betty Kahn Building
on the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield
Food and activity tickets will be on sale at the event.
ADMISSION IS FREE!
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tial projects several years ago. TNT
was looking for war-related projects,
Sussman suggested, so why not pitch
the Nazi war crimes tribunal that had
never been tackled — save in the
highly fictionalized 1961 Stanley
Kramer film, judgement at Nuremberg.
fact, as eight extras fled the set, never to
return. "I just forced myself to look at
the footage," she says. "The whole art
of that scene was trying not to sob."
Actor Brian Cox, who is riveting as
Hermann Goering, mostly looked
away, as Hitler's former second-in-
command did during the trial.
Privately, however, he noted the gasps
during a point he found to be the
most powerful in the film.
"It was the moment a young
woman is taken out of an open grave,
and her hair cascades down, and sud-
denly she is not just another nameless
victim," says Cox. Long considered
one of Britain's leading stage actors,
I n the TNT version, accuracy
was to be the highest priority.
Early on, Director Yves
Simoneau and the production
team traveled to Nuremberg to visit
the old courtroom in the Palace of
Justice, a huge, gray, Gothic edifice on
the Furtherstrasse.
They perused the Palace's library
for photographs of the
original courtroom,
which, they learned, had
been illuminated by
harsh florescent lamps so
photographers could
shoot without the dis-
traction of flashbulbs.
They learned about the
Jewish psychologist
Gustav Mahler Gilbert,
bespectacled and grave,
who began as an inter-
preter in the cell bloc and
became an analyst and
confidant to the Nazis, all Brian Cox, bottom left, as Hermann Goerring, Hitler's
the while obsessed with
second in command. He was found guilty and sentenced
understanding their mur-
to death but committed suicide in his cell by swallowing
derous impulses.
cyanide shortly before the executions began.
The filmmakers also
secured the astounding concentration
he has portrayed a number of memo-
camp footage that was shown publicly
rable villains.
for the first time at Nuremberg;
"She was a young woman with
Simoneau decided to use a full six
long, flowing hair, albeit monstrously
minutes of the film in one scene,
thin, and the effect was devastating,"
played without any dialogue or sound,
he recalls.
save the whirring of the film projector.
Cox, who carefully researched a
The effect was devastating on the
character he did not want to portray
cast and crew.
as a stereotypical villain, convinced the
Hennessy recalled arriving at the
screenwriters to add a line that pro-
shoot that was to record her charac-
vides the coda to the scene. The portly
ter's• response to the footage: The
Nazi, after viewing the Holocaust
actors who played the Nazis were
footage, complains that the film has
recorded earlier that morning, and as
ruined his afternoon. It's the perfect
they filed off the stage with grim faces
insight into Goering, the egoist. •
they warned her to steel herself for a
"I believe that evil people are ordi-
difficult day.
nary," Cox says. 111
Apparently, Stone, the son of sur-
vivors, collapsed in tears at one point
Part I of Nuremberg debuts 8-10
and was comforted by another actor,
p.m.
Sunday, July 16, and Part
who, ironically, as a boy had been a
II
airs
8 - 10 p.m. Monday, July
member of the Hitler Youth.
17,
on
TNT; both repeat at
The concentration camp imagery
midnight
following the original
was not new for Hennessy (Law &
showing.
Parts
I and II will be
Order), who has been reading about
aired
together
beginning
8 p.m.
the Holocaust since viewing the
Friday,
July
21;
8
p.m.
Auschwitz drama Playing for Time
Wednesday, July 26; and noon
when she was 11. Nevertheless, she
Saturday, July 29.
says, the effect was "brutal."
The cameras continued to roll, in