Inspired by Sandra Schulberg’s decade-long research into the making of and suppression of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, The Lost Film of Nuremberg re-traces the hunt for film evidence used to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood — Budd & Stuart Schulberg — serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day.
The niece of Budd Schulberg and daughter of Stuart Schulberg, Sandra Schulberg spent years restoring her father’s film in collaboration with Josh Waletzky, with funding from Steven Spielberg, Leon Constantiner, Zukerman Family Foundation, the National Archives of the Netherlands, and the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany. It premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2010 followed by a brief run at the Film Forum, marking its first-ever screening in a U.S. theater.
Seventy-five years after the trial, French journalist and filmmaker Jean-Christophe Klotz returns to the German salt mines where films lay burning, uncovers never-before-seen footage, and interviews key figures to unravel why the resulting film about the trial -- Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today (1948) by Stuart Schulberg – was intentionally buried by the U.S. Department of War.
Fascinating anecdotes about the search for incriminating film are recounted by Budd Schulberg (On The Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd, The Harder They Fall, What Makes Sammy Run?)&