Film Screening: NUREMBERG
Tues., March 3, 20266:00 - 9:00 pm ET (US)
Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University Campus
About the Event
Join CGES for a film screening of the 2025 film, Nuremberg, adapted from author Jack El-Hai's book, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. Jack El-Hai will be there in person to host a discussion right after the screening.
Nuremberg is a 2025 American film written, co-produced, and directed by James Vanderbilt. Based on the 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai, the psychological thriller/historical drama follows U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) as he seeks to carry out an assignment to investigate the personalities and monitor the mental status of high-ranking Nazis, most prominently among them Hitler’s #2 Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) in preparation for and during the Nuremberg trials.
About the Speaker
Jack El-Hai is an award-winning writer whose books include Face in the Mirror, The Lost Brothers, The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness, and The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Herman Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII, translated into more than a dozen languages.
He has contributed articles to Scientific American, Wired, Discover, GQ, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Aeon, The Washington Post Magazine, and many other publications. Some of these articles have won the June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism, Outstanding Article honors from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and other awards.
His other writing honors include two Minnesota Book Awards, a McKnight Fellowship, and the annual book award of the Medical Journalists’ Association of the United Kingdom. Jack formerly served as the Board Chair of the Loft Literary Center and president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.