January 1946, the army psychologist assigned to look after the Accused has a never-to-be-repeated chance to examine evil, close-up, day-by-day. What made these 22 men capable of such horrific acts? He spends time with them, he runs tests: just what will it reveal?

Gustav Gilbert, a German-speaking US Army Psychologist, is assigned to Nuremberg Prison to examine and watch over the defendants. The defendants value the chance to speak to him and he lets them – he writes up daily, copious notes of his conversations. Will he find the mystery of human evil? Starring Ed Stoppard as Gustav Gilbert, a New York psychologist, and featuring Jasper Britton as Joachim von Ribbentrop, once Hitler’s Foreign Minister.

Gustav Gilbert - ED STOPPARD

Douglas Kelley - ILAN GOODMAN

Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL

Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON

Hermann Goering - NIGEL LINDSAY

Edda Goering - ROSIE SHEEHY

Emmy Goering - SOPHIA PETTIT

Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe - FORBES MASSON

Albert Kesselring and other roles - CLIVE WOOD

John Amen - JOSEPH ALESSI

Joachim von Ribbentrop - JASPER BRITTON

Ernst Kaltenbrunner - JONATHAN CULLEN

Otto Kranzbühler and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT

Admiral Nimitz and other roles - NATHAN WILEY

Alfred Seidl and other roles - HARI DHILLON

Hans Frank and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL

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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