20th November 1945 and the Defendants take their place in the dock – 22 of the most senior Nazis, representing each component of Hitler’s machine. But without simultaneous translation the trial will be unworkable – are the interpreters ready?

Seen through the eyes of Tatiana, a young Russian interpreter, the trial opens and the interpreters struggle - Nuremberg was the first ever use of simultaneous interpreting. They said it couldn’t be done.

And once the indictments have been read, Robert Jackson, Chief US Prosecutor makes the opening speech. The accused men in the dock seem almost proud of what they did. But the American team is relying too heavily on documents – they're chilling but there's a danger of the trial becoming bogged down by documents alone. The Defendants are even starting to feel they’re winning -n until the American Prosecutors change tack and show a 60-minute film of footage of the concentration camps.

The courtroom is reduced to silence, the defendants finally cowed.

Cast:
Tatiana Sablikova - AMANDA RYAN
Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON
Leon Dostert - CLIVE WOOD
Robert Storey - HARI DHILLON
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe - FORBES MASSON
Julius Streicher - HENRY GOODMAN
Albert Speer - JOSEPH ALESSI
Hermann Goering and other roles - NIGEL LINDSAY
Hans Marx and other roles - ILAN GOODMAN
Hans Fritzsche and other roles - NATHAN WILEY
Joachim von Ribbentrop and other roles - JASPER BRITTON
Wilhelm Keitel and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN
Adolf Hitler and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL
German Interpreter and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT

Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON

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