Among the unexpected gems that this year brings the Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires, surely it has restored copy of Nuremberg: It's lesson for today , the film's official U.S. government reported the development of the famous trial of the survivors of the Nazi party's senior German at the end of the war. The story of this film is strangely other, including the complex events that had to cross their leaders, and the intrigues and hidden endured when completed. Originally, this movie had two clear objectives and complementary function as irrefutable proof that the process initiated by the leaders of Nazism had been clean and fair, but also as a lesson for humanity. It would then record a documentary, but not without guidance and line. For this work was entrusted to Stuart Schulberg, who had been responsible in the task of collecting video and photography to document the atrocities committed by those responsible for the German Reich. That search had emerged documentary The Nazi plan, which for 4 hours as realized that the responsible party and Adolf Hitler, had been gaining power, and a second film, Concentration camps, which compiled the images in an hour of horror. Both documents were used as evidence during the trial marks an important milestone, as it was the first time you used this type of audiovisual material as evidence in legal unproceso. Some of the images of these two papers were used to support editing Nuremberg: It `s lesson for today, giving a narrative fluency and cogency in any way that would have been if only he had made with pictures of the trial.
Assembly is the secret of the film. That is where its effect and its ideology: the fact that when playing a declaration of Hitler, in which he says he does not want "no dogs unclean" meddling in its war plans, those words are heard on Images of Pope Pius XII and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Sometimes the appeal is unintentionally comic, as in the case of the string of public statements on Hitler in declaring that a friend of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium, just months before invading with different kinds of violence all these countries. Everything is in images, some of a frightening rawness. The film was released in Germany in early 1948 but, interestingly, never in the United States. One theory to explain the matter is, as always, economic: that the American people know that material could become a strong impediment to the plans of the German reconstruction, via the Marshall Plan.
See the movie has almost 70 years after the events occurred that gave it life, it does produce strange effects. Because if the film ends with a statement of principles, which expects its content (the atrocities recorded, but also the exemplary punishment is given to the defendants, among whom there were Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess and Karl Dönitz) serve as a warning to those who intend to launch wars of aggression in the future, but today you can not remember so many inroads regrettable war that the United States itself started or stove. Nuremberg: It's lesson for today , shown here with a restored print by Sandra Schulberg, daughter of the director, it remains an interesting possibility to rethink the horror of the past, from the horrors of this.
Nuremberg: it's lesson for today is projected only to the Fundación Proa, Avenida Pedro de Mendoza 1929, in the neighborhood of La Boca, on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 to 19 hours.
Article originally published in the Culture section Argentine Time.
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