The Eichmann Show (2015)

The Eichmann Show (2015) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2015 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Paul Andrew Williams

Written By:
Simon Block

Actors:
Martin Freeman ..... Milton Fruchtman
Anthony LaPaglia ..... Leo Hurwitz
Rebecca Front ..... Mrs. Landau
Andy Nyman ..... David Landor
Nicholas Woodeson ..... Yaakov Jonilowicz
Ben Addis ..... Ron Huntsman
Caroline Bartlett ..... Judy Gold
Ed Birch ..... Millek Knebel
Dylan Edwards ..... Roy Sedwell
Nathaniel Gleed ..... Tommy Hurwitz
Ben Lloyd-Hughes ..... Alan Rosenthal
Vaidotas Martinaitis ..... Adolf Eichmann
Zora Bishop ..... Eva Fruchtman
Nell Mooney ..... Female Journalist
Solomon Mousley ..... Perry Rudolph

Synopsis:

The behind-the-scenes true life story of ground-breaking 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.

In 1961 former Nazi Adolf Eichmann is captured by Jewish agents and put on trial. American television producer Milton Fruchtman fervently believes that the trial with its witness accounts of Nazi atrocities should be televised to show the world the evils of the Holocaust and to combat any resurgence of Nazism and joins forces with black-listed director Leo Hurwitz. Despite death threats, reluctance to cooperate from several networks and even resistance from the Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion, who fears a 'show trial', the pair persist and move their cameras into the court-room. Edited daily and shown in some three dozen countries the 'Eichmann Show' becomes the first ever global television documentary.

Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 27 May, 2015.