The Memory of Justice (1976)
October 4, 1976Release Date
The Memory of Justice (1976)
October 4, 1976Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Albert Speer
Self (archive footage)

Karl Dönitz
Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)

Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)

Herta Oberheuser
Self (archive footage)

Edward Sowders
Self - US Deserter

Noël Favrelière
Self

Telford Taylor
Self

Jacques Pâris de Bollardière
Self

Yehudi Menuhin
Self

Daniel Ellsberg
Self

Edgar Faure
Self

Beate Klarsfeld
Self

Serge Klarsfeld
Self

Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff
Self

Joan Baez
Self

Sanford Lieberson
Producer

Johanna Hofer
Self

John Kenneth Galbraith
Self

Michael J. Davis
Cinematographer

Henri Alleg
Self

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
Self

Robert Jay Lifton
Self

Marion Kraft
Editor

G.M. Gilbert
Self

Eugen Kogon
Self

Alexander Mitscherlich
Self

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen
Self

Ferdinand Porsche
Self (archive footage)

Edward Sowders
Self

Marcel Ophüls
Director / Producer / Writer

Mike Davis
Director of Photography
Media.


Details.
Release DateOctober 4, 1976
StatusReleased
Running Time4h 38m
Content RatingPG
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This Movie Is About.
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The Memory of Justice is a 1976 documentary film directed by Marcel Ophuls. It explores the subject of atrocities committed in wartime and features Joan Baez, Karl Dönitz, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Yehudi Menuhin, Albert Speer and Telford Taylor.
The film was inspired by Telford Taylor's 1970 book Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy, and Taylor is interviewed extensively during the film. But Ophuls takes the book as a starting point for exploring the possibility of people judging one another, especially in light of their behavior in other contexts, as well as dealing with individual versus collective responsibility. The film discusses the notion that any group in power is capable of committing a war atrocity.
The film had a difficult genesis. It was originally financed in the summer of 1973 by the BBC, Polytel, and a private company based in London, Visual Programme Systems (VPS), the latter of whom had wanted the film to dwell heavily on America's involvement in Vietnam and France's involvement in Algeria. The BBC and Polytel had invested on the basis of a three hour film however, after completing rough cuts, VPS was dismayed at Ophuls' work which ran to more than four hours (particularly his excessive leaning on the Nuremberg Trials and Nazi involvement) and tried to remove him as director. Hamilton Fish V organized a group of investors who were able to buy back the rights to the film from VPS and allow Ophuls to complete it.
The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.
The Memory of Justice was restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2015. This restored version was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015, and at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2015.
In 2017, Ophuls referred to the film as, "The most personal and sincere work I've ever done."
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