Interview With "Nuremberg" Star Rami Malek & Filmmaker James Vanderbilt

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

"Nuremberg" is an American historical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by James Vanderbilt. It is based on the 2013 book "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist" by Jack El-Hai and tells the story of a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), who is challenged with determining if Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) is fit to stand trial at the Nuremberg trials. Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O'Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E. Grant, and Michael Shannon have supporting roles in the film. The film's world premiere was in the Gala Presentations section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, where it received positive reviews and a four-minute standing ovation, one of TIFF's longest standing ovations ever. Vanderbilt and Malek were both kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Sony Pictures Classics. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the director and writer for the film Nuremberg, James Vanderbilt, and the film star, Rami Malick.
0:12.3	Justice Jackson?
0:14.6	They captured Hermagoring alive.
0:17.5	What are they going to do with it?
0:19.6	You're standing inside a secret military prison.
0:22.6	It houses what's left of the Nazi high command.
0:24.6	Dieg.
0:25.6	Hey!
0:26.6	Nezor do that in my prison again.
0:29.6	The governments of Russia, France, Great Britain, and our United States will put these men on trial for their lives.
0:35.6	It can't be done. There's no international law to base charges on.
0:40.3	The world needs to know what these men did.
0:43.3	Dr. Kelly, Central Command thinks you're some kind of hot-shot head shrinker.
0:47.3	You will inspect and ensure the prisoner's mental health.
0:50.3	The one you'll have to watch the closest is Gehring.
0:53.3	There's appoint Hitler's successor in 1939 and his highest-ranking German military officer of all time.
0:59.0	He's highly intelligent, charming, and a narcissist.
1:03.0	I am going to escape the hangman's nose.
1:05.0	Very sure of yourself.
1:06.0	No man has ever beaten me.
1:10.0	You want to know why it happened here? Because people let it happen. man has ever beaten me.
1:13.6	You want to know why it happened here? Because people let it happen.
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