Photo: Yevgeny Khaldei near Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trial, Wikipedia.org
The production team behind the Russian WW2 drama Sobibor will work on a film about the Nuremberg trial, RIA Novosti reports.
Russia's Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky proposed to put the story behind the Nuremberg process on the screen. First and foremost, the film should depict all the events credibly, he noted.
Producer Elmira Aynulova recalled that Sobibor had a great box-office success. It proves that fims about the fight against fascism are popular in Russia and other countries as well, she added.
Russkiy Mir reported that Sobibor became the directorial debut of Russian actor Konstantin Khabensky. The film tells the story of escape from the extermination camp. Khabensky also played the role of Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky who led the escape. The film received an Oscar nomination.
Elmira Aynulova is convinced that Nuremberg film will remind everyone of the “historically objective circumstances and the context of this process which defined the world order for many decades.”
The statute of limitations for crimes against humanity was lifted during the Nuremberg trial. This issue has become relevant nowadays because of some countries, which try to justify the crimes committed by the Nazis during the WWII.
The trial of the main Nazi criminals, also called the Court of History, was held in the German town of Nuremberg. It began in the fall of the 1945 and lasted almost a year.
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