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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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I felt sympathy for Adolf Eichmann who was doing his job for his Führer and his Fatherland. From the beginning of the movie I hated the Jews. All those Star of David flags flying around reminded me of Turkish flags flying around everywhere, the barbarian Turks who took over Greek Byzantine lands in cold blood. Israel was bought and paid for in cold blood and illegally. The Jews declared war on Germany in 1933!!!!! And the Jews forced Britain to declare war on Germany in September 1939 after invading Poland. THE JEWS DESTROYED GERMANY IN BOTH WWI AND WWII. JEWS ARE SWINDLERS, CROOKS AND CHEATERS.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
08/02/23
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What can you say? This film had potential...a lot. Here you have a chance to make a modern-day classic. A courtroom drama on the level of Judgment at Nuremburg (1961, Stanley Kramer) or a more personal drama like The Verdict (1982, Sidney Lument) could have been the result of a more focused script. Alas, we have a mediocre film with a running time of about 100 minutes; not enough time to do justice to the film's potential. Although, there are glimpses of what might have been and these make the film worth watching: (1) The actual subject of Adolf Eichmann's trial isn't discussed very frequently nowadays and it is refreshing to see it in a public light; (2) the acting is good, but Thomas Kretschmann as Eichmann is great; Kretschmann alone is reason enough to view the film; and (3) a clear theme emerges throughout the film despite the script's lack of focus, which is the "banality of evil" as personified by Eichmann; it is not a new theme as Hannah Ardent proposed it as her thesis in the classic book: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963). The theme is as timely today as it was then and makes a great topic for research. Despite these glimpses of potential greatness, the film skews into questionable historical waters and goes for the splinter approach of trying balance the Avner Less home story, workplace politics, historical and familial flashbacks, and the Holocaust as an event and a memory. It is just too much for the time frame and the film suffers as a result. If only, if only...
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/28/23
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This film is a prime example of missing the point. Adolf Eichmann was responsible for organizing and running the Holocaust. He was a heartless bastrd and his subordinates had pretty well sold him up the river as soon as they got the chance. Everyone knew he was guilty as sin. Which makes the whole dramatic theme of the movie insane: that they needed to get him to admit to the murders or set him free. Eichmann admits from the start that he was in charge, but argues that he was just following orders, a defense already tried by dozens of deceased war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials. But apparently it's not enough to have just organized the largest genocide in human history. No, he has to have done it for evil reasons or he's a free man. Because apparently the crime of murdering millions of people is somehow less than the crime of being an anti-semite.
In trying to turn him into more of a comic book supervillain they miss the entire point of Eichmann. He WAS just following orders. He was a dull petty-minded bureaucrat who was content to leave the moral decisions to his superiors. It's one of the scariest things about him. Crazy raving Hitler is easy to understand. But having the man in charge of so much murder kill not through a bottomless well of malice but through sheer indifference⦠well that's a harder thing to come to terms with. But instead they need to make him malicious, because simplifying villainy is the easiest way to not have to come to terms with the evil in all of us. To say that the final revelation that, gosh, maybe he wasn't so fond of the Jews after all, is a major anticlimax is understating the case. It should never have been an issue.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/22/23
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While The Portrayal Of Eichmann Was Riveting, The Story Lacked Pacing And Consistency. Hard To Keep Focus Throughout.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
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Intense drama. The 7 month interogation of newly captured Eichmann reduced to 1hr. 40 minutes. I found the film engrossing but tough to sit through. And we all know the end, don't we? (hint: rope)
SEE the official trailer here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x0qnEZ0nWY
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Eichmann recounts events from his past to a young Israeli officer, Captain Avner Less (Troy Garity), who is faced with the immense task of tricking the skilled manipulator into self-incrimination.
As mentioned at the end of the film in the credits by the interrogator, Capt. Less,.... kids or teens today barely know or are unaware of a Hitler or and Eichmann. The atrocites of the past are preventable, he believes, by "pure" democracy. [which the world has not seen since ancient Greece, btw. Today we have '
"representaive" democracies].
[img]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSq0i7KAOJqbc5vJmwZpOvCVmsY_P0T05JwvwSW2U0lg_ya_TND[/img] The then young Adolf Eichman, confident, cocky
The film is well done, the dialect is at times hard to understand and the film constantly shifts from the past to the present, recalling events in Adolf Eichmann's ridiculouosly patriotic past as "just following orders".
How ironic that this fellow, Eichamann, the greatest facilitator (he would not admit first person murder) of human misery short of Adolf Hitler himeself, should end up in modern day Israel to face justice.
REVIEWS:
1 Mr. Kretschmann holds your attention through each whining complaint and bland denial. His character may be banal, but his portrayal is the only thing that keeps you watching.
2 Sincere, handsomely produced rendition of real-life encounter...amounts to an engaging drama seasoned by a dollop of soft-core titillation.
3 Eichmann is illuminating, comprehensive, richly detailed and timelessly important - but also ponderous.
NOTES:
1 "Eichmann is a biographical film detailing the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann. Directed by Robert Young, the film stars Thomas Kretschmann as Eichmann and Troy Garity as Eichmann's Israeli interrogator, Avner Less. It was first released in Brazil in September 2007, and was released in the United States in October 2010"--wikipedia
2 As the film shrewdly points out, if Eichmann were deported to Germany, he would never be executed as modern Germany had no death penalty.
3 Released in Brazil, the film only grossed 2700 dollars.
SEE the entire film here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASrZjRVjr6Y&list=PL943CDA52348692B5
CAST
Thomas Kretschmann as Adolf Eichmann
Troy Garity as Captain Avner Less
Franka Potente as Vera Less
Stephen Fry as Minister Tormer
Delaine Yates as Miriam Fröhlich
Tereza Srbova as Baroness Ingrid von Ihama
Judit Viktor as Ann Marie
Stephen Greif as Hans Lipmann
[img]http://cdn1.tabletmag.com/wp-content/files_mf/1302198745et-stills-lead-380.jpg[/img] On trial, the real Adolf Eichmann
Directed by
Robert Young
Written by
Snoo Wilson
Music by
Richard Harvey
Cinematography
Michael Connor
Editing by
Saska Simpson
Studio
Regent Releasing
Here! Films
Distributed by
Regent Releasing
Release dates
September 2007 (Brazil)
Running time
100 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Box office
$2,706
[img]http://content6.flixster.com/rtmovie/58/52/58524_gal.jpg[/img] The interrogator, standing. Eichmann, seated.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/19/23
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