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WAR AND JUSTICE

By Marcus VETTER, Michele GENTILE

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Documentary - Completed 2023

War and Justice is the first and only true-life documentary about the International Criminal Court (ICC), enlightened by unprecedented access to Ben Ferencz (prosecuting attorney of the Nuremberg Trials), Luis Moreno-Ocampo (ICC’s first prosecutor), and Karim Khan (its current prosecutor).

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Munich International Filmfestival 2023
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    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Marcus VETTER, Michele GENTILE
    • Writer(s)
    • Marcus VETTER
    • Producer(s)
    • Marcus VETTER (Filmperspektive GmbH), Anita ELSANI (Elsani Film), Ulf MEYER (Addictive Film), Derek BRITT
    • Synopsis
    • War and Justice is the first and only true-life documentary about the International Criminal Court (ICC), enlightened by unprecedented access to Ben Ferencz (prosecuting attorney of the Nuremberg Trials), Luis Moreno-Ocampo (ICC’s first prosecutor), and Karim Khan (its current prosecutor).
      The film opens with the ICC’s news-breaking arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the midst of the escalating Ukraine war. It rewinds to the inauguration of first Chief Prosecutor Ocampo. And it proceeds to chronicle the Court’s two decades’ journey as the emerging global authority to punish aggressors and help prevent war.
      Film directors Marcus Vetter and Michele Gentile follow Ocampo around the world as he enlists the support of Academy Award-winning Angelina Jolie, as he partners with Ferencz, as they together fight uphill battles against wars in the Congo, Libya, Syria and Ukraine, always with special concern for any atrocities against children.
      With the three largest world powers — China, Russia and the United States — still unwilling to sign the ICC treaty, will wars of aggression ever be brought to justice? Sadly, just as the film is about to debut, Ferencz dies at the age of 103. But Ocampo and Khan fight on in his honor, more determined than ever to put an end all to wars of aggression, along with the inevitable human atrocities they cause.



      Logline
      In July 1998, 120 states decided to transform the Nuremberg Legacy into a permanent institution, something that had never been done before. These states pledged to prevent and punish the most serious crimes against the international community: crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, and the mother of all crimes: Wars of aggression.

      To ensure the protection of victims, they created the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to intervene when they fail to act. Argentine lawyer Luis Moreno-Ocampo becomes the ICC's first chief prosecutor.

      Today, in 2022, the ICC is more in demand than ever. Russia decided to militarily occupy part of Ukraine, and 43 states responded by asking the ICC to intervene. Ukraine accepted the court's jurisdiction to investigate possible war crimes and crimes against humanity, and Karim Kahn, the ICC's current prosecutor, is active but cannot prosecute the crime of aggression because an amendment to the law adopted in 2017 requires the consent of the aggressor, in this case Russia.

      Ten years after Luis Moreno Ocampo handed over his post as prosecutor to Fatou Bensouda, he is returning to Europe for the first time. In Nuremberg, where Nazi leaders once stood trial for waging a war of aggression, Ocampo addresses the world community in a keynote speech about being at a crossroads.

      Can justice replace war as a mechanism for resolving conflict? To help people understand what is at stake, Ocampo stresses that films are necessary to reach global audiences. A 1961 film, "The Nuremberg Verdict," promoted t
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