The Specialist
The Specialist
Un spécialiste, portrait d'un criminel moderne / Eyal Sivan / France, Israel / 1999 / 128 min / Hebrew, German
On May 11, 1960, Adolph Eichmann, the chief of SS transportation and a leading player in the Holocaust, was captured by the Israeli secret service in Argentina, where he had been living for ten years as ‘Ricardo Clement’. One year later he was put on trial in Jerusalem, seated in a bullet proof glass box and tried for ‘crimes against humanity.’ Drawing entirely on the 350 hours of rare footage recorded during the trial, this film about obedience and responsibility is the portrait of an expert in problems resolving, responsible of the elimination of several million people, a modern criminal.
producer | Eyal Sivan
screenplay | Eyal Sivan, Rony Brauman based on 'Eichmann in Jerusalem, Report on the Banality of Evil' by Hannah Arendt
camera | Leo Hurwitz
editor | Audrey Maurion
sound | Nicolas Becker, Philippe Baudhuin, Thomas Gauder
music | Yves Robert, Krishna Levy, Béatrice Thiriet, Jean-Michel Levy
