Episode 15 - Guilty or Not?
After 218 days in the courtroom, the Judges must arrive at their verdicts. Outside, some expect all the Nazis to hang, others predict prison for some or even acquittal.
After 216 days in the courtroom, the judges must arrive at their verdicts – the debate will be fierce. Outside, some expect all the Nazis to hang, others predict prison or even acquittal. And while they wait, the Accused are allowed visitors for the first time. And maybe the last time.
As the judges argue, the prisoners are allowed visitors for the first time. Emma Schwabenland, an American translator, is given the job of organising the Visitors Room, and Pastor Gerecke, an American Lutheran, is under-employed tending to their spiritual needs. And upstairs the eight judges (two from each country) debate the appropriate sentences – the Russians want everyone found guilty and hanged, the other judges take a more nuanced view...Starring Natalie Dormer as Emma Schwabenland and featuring Ilan Goodman as Pastor Henry Gerecke.
Emma Schwabenland - NATALIE DORMER
Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL
Hermann Goering - NIGEL LINDSAY
Emmy Goering - SOPHIA PETTIT
Pastor Gerecke - ILAN GOODMAN
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON
Iona Nikitchenko - HENRY GOODMAN
Robert Falco - HARI DHILLON
Francis Biddle - CLIVE WOOD
Sir Norman Birkett and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL
Henri De Vabres and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN
John Parker and other roles - NATHAN WILEY
Albert Speer and other roles - JOSEPH ALESSI
Niklas Frank and other roles - ROSIE SHEEHY
Otto Kranzbühler and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Joachim von Ribbentrop and other roles - JASPER BRITTON
Titles - LEWIS MACLEOD
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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