The Silence of the Lambs provided inspiration for James Vanderbilt‘s historical drama Nuremberg.

Russell Crowe and Rami Malek star in the new movie about the Nuremberg Trials and a showdown between a high-ranking Nazi and a psychiatrist and director Vanderbilt admitted he took inspiration from Jonathan Demme’s 1991 psychological horror thriller.

According to a synopsis for the film: “The year is 1945. Adolf Hitler is dead, and the Second World War is drawing to a close. Several figures within the Nazi high command have been apprehended by the Allies - among them the eerily charismatic Hermann Göring (Crowe). U.S. Lt. Colonel Douglas Kelley (Malek), an army psychiatrist, is called in to evaluate the Nazi captives.”

Vanderbilt told The Hollywood Reporter: “It was really important for me,

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