The confrontation between him and Tracy in the jail at the very end of the film is a film history classic the irony is dripping. His dialogues are brilliant. Schell won every major international award for this portrayal. He is Austrian and had family perish in the war. He is currently acting on Broadway in the play, Judgment at Nuremberg .
Old worlds meets new.
She was German, and a huge star in Weimar Germany, hitting the big time in 1930 with the Blue Angel . She left Germany in the 1930s for US, was an outspoken opponent of National Socialism before leaving Germany and rejected Hitler s personal appeal to return to Germany during the war. Her films were banned in Germany during the war. The Nuremberg laws were real, the Feldstein case was fictional, based on a number of key civil show trials in Germany afer the Nuremberg laws of 1935. Very liberal, very democratic, and very, very unstable.