Nuremberg: Vanderbilt thriller to premiere at TIFF

James Vanderbilt's new historical thriller Nuremberg, starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September before opening in U.S. theaters on November 7, 2025 through Sony Pictures Classics. The film, adapted from Jack ElHai's nonfiction book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, follows U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley as he interrogates former Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring in the days leading up to the Nuremberg Trials. Sony Pictures Classics released a second teaser this week that emphasizes the psychological duel at the film's center and underscores the legal and moral stakes of the postwar prosecutions.

The official synopsis highlights the film's focus on accountability, saying, "The Allies, led by the unyielding chief prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, have the task of ensuring the Nazi regime answers for the unveiled horrors of the Holocaust." In the teaser, lines delivered in period staging and voiceover include "I'm not gonna make them martyrs... There will be no statues of them" and "An important lesson from history," underscoring the film's preoccupation with justice, memory, and the public...