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Council of the Gods (1950)

Council of the Gods (1950)

Drama
Release Date: 1950, May 12
Directors: Kurt Maetzig
Countries: East Germany
Production: DEFA
Cast: Eva Pflug, Inge Keller, Brigitte Krause, Herwart Grosse, Fritz Tillmann, Agnes Windeck, Albert Garbe, Yvonne Merin, Willy A. Kleinau, Arthur Wiesner, Helene Riechers, Paul Bildt

Overview:

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.