 Council of the Gods is part of the DEFA Collection.
Based on testimony from the Nuremberg Trial of chemical giant I.G. Farben, this is the story of the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions. The film focuses on a chemist who embraces political neutrality, closing his eyes to the fact that poison is being produced in his factory - poison to be used in the gas chambers of the concentration camps.
Featuring the electronic sounds of Oskar Sala (Hitchcock’s The Birds), the film is powerful in its depiction of the moral dilemmas of the war, as well as of Cold War propaganda.
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