Nuremberg Review: Psychological & Historical Drama At Its Best

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What makes people evil? What compelled the Nazis to commit such ghastly atrocities against Jews during the Hitler regime during WWII?

The answers to those questions might shock & baffle you. I recently saw a post on a social media feed of this one podcast host suggesting that men in power who commit heinous crimes of evil essentially think they’re doing the right thing, as shocking as their acts are & as baffling as it sounds.

As I made my way to Jio World Drive, a state-of-the-art theatre in central Mumbai, which has become my usual go-to theatre, these past few years, I didn’t quite know what to expect from Nuremberg as I took my seat.

As is the case with most English language films in India, especially non-commercial flicks, there were barely twenty to twenty-five odd people in the theatre seated to watch the movie on a Saturday afternoon, just a day after the movie released globally. So, it almost felt like a private screening.

But the movie was uncannily yet incredibly gripping in its first 30 minutes, right from the first scene where Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) is arrested & taken to prison to…