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Richard P @RT53085331 03/10/2025 Astounding film, thought provoking, difficult to watch the historical footage...highly recommend it. Martin Freeman is brilliant. See more Paul G @RT67423558 11/03/2023 Its watchable, its interesting in that you get to understand what is taking place around the trial and the impact the trial has on the world. There is no big ending though as throughout the trial Eichmann maintains his composure and gives little to nothing away. Did it need to be a film/drama? I'm not sure. Its powerful watching though and maybe for some its message is more effective than watch documentaries. See more andy f @RT81936104 04/07/2018 An interesting movie covering the live broadcast of Adolf Eichmann's trial. It effectively shows the time when the world finally woke up to the plight of the Jeiwsh people during WWII. See more 09/26/2017 Kind of slow, but deep film. See more 08/04/2017 Terrific untold story of the televised trial of Adolf Eichmann the designed of the Third Reich's Final Solution where they murdered 6 million people, more than 400,000 of them children See more 09/19/2016 I'm not sure exactly what this film was supposed to be doing but it never fully achieves it. The beginning is interesting as the technical difficulties of filming Eichmann's trial are worked out (the first televised broadcast of a trial apparently), but after that there's no clear goal in mind to stir up drama. I mean, the director wants to get Eichmann to crack but up there in the studio hidden away behind the cameras there's no real way for them to be proactive about this except to focus the cameras on the man and hope for the best. Which means that the latter 2/3 of the film are just the cast watching the trial unfold on TV as unseen figures direct the plot. It's interesting to watch the trial (which is shown using authentic footage from the production) but if that was the goal then surely an edited down version of the documentary would have been more worthwhile. There's also an annoying decision made to keep reminding us of the (unspecified) crimes of the Israeli state. While the Israelis have certainly shown a tendency to use the memory of persecutions such as the Holocaust to dismiss any accusations of their own human rights violations, this is hardly the place to go into it. It's tasteless. Perhaps a hard-hitting drama that dealt with the ugly tendency for victims of abuse to become abusers themselves could handle such a topic, but this film isn't and never could have been that. They should have left well enough alone. See more Read all reviews

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