When Elsa Triolet wished to revive the picture of the USSR in Nuremberg | EUROtoday
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HAS Nuremberg, precisely eighty years in the past, there have been in fact the 21 accused on the benches, the Nazi leaders. The movies too, movies proof of their crimes, projected on a display screen positioned “in a central position, at the crossroads of views”, underlines the historian Sylvie Lindeperg, writer of Nuremberg. The battle of photos (Payot), the courtroom having been relegated to the aspect, instead of the jury.
There had been, one other novelty, three movie crews: the army operators of the Signal Corps with impartial purpose; American, French and British information operators, searching for probably the most dramatic moments; the Soviet group of Roman Karmen, separated from the Western pool, skilled in “trial films” shot within the USSR. Nuremberg was the setting for the filmed trials of…
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