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Please join us for the first screening of the 2011-12 Human Rights
film series sponsored by the Hampshire Law Program.<br>
On Monday September 26, see the historic 1961 motion picture<i>
Judgment at Nuremberg </i>directed by Stanley Kramer and
featuring a cast that reads like a "who's who" of the golden age of
Hollywood:
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<span id="Performer Note">Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard
Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland,
Montgomery Clift. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best
Picture, Best Director and Best Editing, it won Best Actor
(Schell) and Best Screenplay. In glorious black and white. </span><span
id="Performer Note">The film pioneered the use of documentary
wartime footage within a narrative film; some of it is graphic and
may be disturbing to some viewers.<br>
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<span id="Performer Note">Film buffs and those interested in human
rights will appreciate the film's excellent acting and production
values, and its probing questions about the nature of evil, the
dilemmas of complicity or resistance to illegitimate authority,
and the question of appropriate guilt and punishment for the
unthinkable crimes of the Nazi era. Of particular interest to the
Law Program is the film's focus on the nature of justice during
Hitler's Third Reich: the defendants are the Nazi judges, charged
with gross abuses of the law.<br>
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Please join us at 7:00pm in FPH 106. All welcome. And watch for
further announcements in the Human Rights series. If you wish to
nominate a particular film for screening please contact me, we are
open for suggestions.<br>
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Flavio Risech
Associate Professor of Law
School of Critical Social Inquiry
Hampshire College
Amherst MA 01002
413.559.5504 voice
413.559.5620 fax
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:frisech@hampshire.edu">frisech@hampshire.edu</a>
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