By Jeffrey Catalano
Assistant Editor
On Friday, March 27, as part of its “Friday Flicks” series, the Mayerson JCC will be showing the 2025 historical drama film, “Nuremberg,” on the big screen at the J. The screening will last from approximately 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
“Nuremberg” tells the true story of U.S. Army psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley (played by Rami Malek), who was assigned to study and monitor the mental health of incarcerated high-ranking Nazi officials like Hermann Göring in the lead-up to the Nuremberg trials. The trials lasted from November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946. In addition to Malek, the film boasts a cast that includes Russel Crowe as Göring and Michael Shannon as Robert H. Jackson, one of the American prosecutors of the Nuremberg trials.
Written and directed by James Vanderbilt, “Nuremberg” examines the mindset of high-ranking Nazis and how they justified loyalty to Hitler and their crimes against humanity. Göring (Hilter’s second-in-command), as played by Crowe, is a particularly intelligent individual, and Malek’s psychiatrist character, Douglas Kelley, goes to great lengths to understand his psyche.
