TORONTO:

Academy Award winners Russell Crowe and Rami Malek captivated their Toronto audience in historical drama Nuremberg, which received a roaring four-minute standing ovation after its world premiere on Sunday.

Director James Vanderbilt's film chronicles the eponymous war crimes trials of 22 major Nazi figures after the end of World War Two.

Crowe plays the role of infamous German Nazi leader Hermann Göring, while Malek portrays U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who is assigned the task of evaluating him and other Nazi captives.

"There have been a lot of World War Two films but there haven't been a lot of post World War Two films," Vanderbilt told Reuters on the red carpet ahead of the premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

He said having an all-star cast tha

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