Council of the Gods

05/12/1950

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1hr 50min

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Drama

STORY

Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions. The chemist Dr. Hans Scholz lives through a tortuous political transformation and maturation process. Eventually, he adopts political neutrality and closes his eyes to the fact that the poison being produced in his factory is being used in the extermination camps. Standing before the judges at the Nuremberg trials, he must face the fact that he is implicated in the deaths of millions in the gas chambers of the concentration camps.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Fritz Tillmann
  • Paul Bildt
  • Helmuth Hinzelmann
  • Yvonne Merin
  • Hans-Georg Rudolph

    Director

  • Kurt Maetzig

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • DEFA

    Production Countries

  • East Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German