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The Eichmann Show TV

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Original title

The Eichmann Show

Year

2015

Running time

90 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Paul Andrew Williams

Screenwriter

Simon Block

Cast

Music

Laura Rossi

Cinematography

Carlos Catalán

Producer

BBC, Baltic Film Services, Feelgood Fiction, Vistaar Religare Film Fund

Genre

Drama | Biography. Nazism. Courtroom Drama / Lawyers. 1960s. TV Movie

Synopsis

The behind-the-scenes true life story of groundbreaking producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz, who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann. He is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of six million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how Eichmann's trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.

Filmed at the trial in Jerusalem in 1961, the production became the world's first ever global TV documentary series, where, for the first time, the horror of the camps was heard directly from the mouths of its victims. It was edited daily and broadcast in Germany, America, Israel and 34 other countries. People fainted when they saw it on TV. Never before had there been such drama in the use of cameras, their positioning or the revolutionary effect of operators being able to adjust frame and position to match subject and content.

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Critics' reviews

"Perhaps it would have been better to choose between documenting and dramatising the trial or the televising of it. As it was, 'The Eichmann Show' fell between two stools"

Lucy Mangan: The Guardian
"Williams did not attempt a creaky re-enactment of these courtroom scenes but included the original 1961 footage, giving a new generation the opportunity to stare into the inexpressive eyes of evil."

Ellen E. Jones: London Evening Standard
"'The Eichmann Show' remained a powerful, at times almost overwhelming, testament both to the horror and to the moral agency of witnessing."

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