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Council of the Gods

Council of the Gods

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 12, 1950

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama

User Score

64%

Original Title

Der Rat der Götter

Production Companies

DEFA

Director

Kurt Maetzig

Description

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.