Council of the Gods
1950 · 110 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 153 VOTES · DIR. Kurt Maetzig
Overview
Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions. The chemist Dr. Hans Scholz lives through a tortuous political transformation and maturation process. Eventually, he adopts political neutrality and closes his eyes to the fact that the poison being produced in his factory is being used in the extermination camps. Standing before the judges at the Nuremberg trials, he must face the fact that he is implicated in the deaths of millions in the gas chambers of the concentration camps.
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00:00:01 COUNCIL OF THE GODS
00:06:00 Right this way, gentlemen.
00:09:35 But we spend months at Gut Bergfried. You're invited.
00:13:10 - One lost war is enough. - We won't lose the next one.
00:17:40 - We'll have to sound him out. - Look into the matter.
00:21:43 And Edith?
00:25:19 Heil Hitler.
00:28:59 "50 percent of the profits".
00:33:10 - We can bank on your neutrality. - Sure.
00:37:40 if we don't get converters pronto.
00:42:33 Turn it off and vacuum the gas.
00:47:22 The workers inside don't notice it.
00:52:16 We have no choice but strategic retreat.
00:56:59 - Can't it wait? - No!
01:01:39 My job of peacetime service.
01:05:36 The old line is dead. Consumers need the new line.
01:10:29 Did you okay poison gas production?
01:14:29 Mr. Tilgner, I ask you for the last time: How deeply was the board involved?
01:19:15 Daddy will fix things.
01:23:24 You witnessed his antics in Nuremberg.
01:27:23 Think in global terms.
01:33:59 - Not to the press. - It's screaming for facts.
01:38:23 Dieter is alive. He'll be out in a minute.
01:42:07 Women, you know us better than that.