The Kiev Trial

Netherlands, 2022 (106 min.)

The Kiev Trial, also known as the ‘Kiev Nuremberg’, took place in January 1946 and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators. 15 criminals, guilty of atrocities, which were later identified by the Nuremberg trials as “crimes against humanity”, faced justice. Using unique, previously unseen, archive footage, Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs key moments of the proceedings, including testimonies of witnesses, survivors of Auschwitz and Babi Yar among them. The film lays bare the ‘banality of evil’ and is devastatingly relevant today, as Ukrainians are once again being subjected to the violence of barbarian invaders.