When will Nuremberg (2025) premiere? Release date, cast details, first look, and more

Written and directed by James Vanderbilt, Nuremberg is a historical drama film which is based on the 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai. Scheduled for a release on November 7, 2025, the narrative follows psychiatrist Douglas Kelly (played by Rami Malek), who is put in charge of assessing the Nazi high command Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) to decide whether the latter is fit to stand trial in the Nuremberg trials.The film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2025, received a four-minute-long standing ovation at the festival. It also features Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O'Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E. Grant, and Michael Shannon in supporting roles alongside other cast members.Russell Crowe and Rami Malek face off as the lead in James Vanderbilt's NurembergA still from the film's trailer (Image via YouTube/Sony Pictures Classics)James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg sets up a gripping psychological showdown between its two leads. Russell Crowe delivers a chilling performance as Hermann Göring, the defiant Nazi leader portrayed as a brilliant yet dangerously egotistical manipulator who treats the trial not as a reckoning, but as a game he intends to win. His confidence borders on delusion as he claims his invincibility and believes he can outsmart justice itself. Opposite him, Rami Malek plays Dr. Douglas Kelly, the American psychiatrist assigned to assess Göring’s mental state. Kelly finds himself dragged into a dangerous mind game, aware that every conversation risks turning against him.Nuremberg trailer: a gripping glimpse at the birth of justice and the battle for truthThe film's trailer shows that this isn’t just another courtroom drama; it’s about the first international trial in history, where the world must decide how to bring war criminals to justice.The tension soon starts to pile up as one character doubts the mission, saying it can’t be done because there’s “no international law” to base it on. And another insists, “The world needs to know what these men did.”The core conflict lies in the face-off between Hermann Göring and American psychiatrist Dr. Kelly. Crowe’s Göring is confident, proud, and disturbingly charming, the kind of man who believes he can talk his way out of anything, even a death sentence.The trailer of Nuremberg also highlights the weight of the supporting characters, such as the strict prison commandant and the nervous guards, adding suspense that everything could collapse at any moment. In the final scenes of the trailer, Michael Shannon's character states:"We are able to do away with domestic tyranny only when we make all men answerable to the law."The true story behind NurembergA still from the film's trailer (Image via YouTube/Sony Pictures Classics)James Vanderbilt's upcoming historical drama is factually based on real-life events which took place in 1945, when the Nazi high command was put on trial. Rami Malek’s Dr. Douglas Kelley and Russell Crowe’s Hermann Göring psychological duel is based on Jack El-Hai's book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, which was released on 2013.Stay tuned for more updates.