The specialist [videorecording] : portrait of a modern criminal / Momento! presents a film by Rony Brauman & Eyal Sivan ; producer, Eyal Sivan ; writers, Rony Brauman, Eyal Sivan ; director, Eyal Sivan.
Title from disc label. Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Based on the book "Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Hannah Arendt. Special features: 60 minute interview with authors Rony Brauman and Eyal Sivan; excerpt from the book "In praise of disobedience"; original theatrical trailer; all texts available in English, German and French. Adolf Eichman, Robert Servatius, Gideon Hausner, Gariel Bach, Ya'akov Bor Or. Produced entirely from footage recorded in 1961 in Jerusalem at the Adolf Eichmann trial by Leo Hurwitz.
Summary:
Lt. Colonel SS, Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the expulsion of Jews, Slovenians, and Gypsies from the Reich between 1938 and 1941, and later, their deportation from Europe to the death camps. Hiding in Argentina, he was captured by the Israeli secret service in 1960. His trial took place in Jerusalem the following year and was the first public event ever recorded on video. This stresses the contrast between monstrosity of the crime and the mediocrity of the man.
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