Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American and worldwide airline rights to James Vanderbilt’s ‘Nuremberg’, starring Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon.

Written and directed by Vanderbilt and produced by Walden Media, Bluestone Entertainment and Mythology Entertainment, the film is a thrilling drama set in post-war Germany based on the book ‘The Nazi and the Psychiatrist’ by Jack El-Hai, a PTI report from New York stated.

‘Nuremberg’ chronicles the true story of the eponymous trials held by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime. The film centres on American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Malek), who is tasked with determining whether Nazi prisoners are fit to stand trial for their war crimes and finds himself in a complex battle of wits with Hermann Goring (Crowe), Hitler’s right-hand man.

According to a press release issued by Sony Pictures Classics on June 18, the film, apart from Crowe and Malek, also stars Michael Shannon (‘Nocturnal Animals’, ‘Revolutionary Road’), Richard e. Grant, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark o’Brien, Colin Hanks, Lydia Peckham, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek and Andreas Pietschmann.

The film will be released in theaters in the US on November 7, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the trials.

‘Nuremberg’ chronicles the true story of the eponymous trials held by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime.  The film is produced by Richard Saperstein, Bradley J. Fischer, James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, and Walden Media’s Frank Smith, Benjamin Tappan, and Cherilyn Hawrysh, along with István Major of Filmsquad and George Freeman. Executive producers include Jack El-Hai, Brooke Saperstein, Annie Saperstein, Beau Turpin, W. Porter Payne, Jr., Paul Neinstein, and Széchenyi Funds Géza Deme and Tamás Hajnal.

“I am beyond thrilled to be reuniting with Michael and Tom and the whole Sony Pictures Classics team, who ten years ago took a chance on me as a first-time director, and whose legacy of championing great films makes them an incredible partner,” said writer-director James Vanderbilt.

He added: “‘Nuremberg’  explores the fragile boundary between justice and vengeance in the aftermath of unimaginable atrocity. As we approach the 80th anniversary of this unprecedented moment in history, this story feels more urgent than ever, and I can’t wait for audiences to see it on the big screen.”

Michael Barker and Tom Bernard serve as co-presidents of Sony Pictures Classics, which is an autonomous division of Sony Pictures Entertainment they founded with Marcie Bloom in January 1992 that distributes, produces, and acquires independent films from around the world.  Sony Pictures Entertainment is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation.