In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Acting
Kingsley's chilling domesticity as Eichmann
Direction
Weitz keeps thriller tension without exploitation
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes politeness
Director
Chris Weitz
Oscar Isaac
Peter Malkin
Ben Kingsley
Adolf Eichmann
Mélanie Laurent
Hanna Elian
Peter Strauss
Lothar Hermann
Nick Kroll
Rafi Eitan
Lior Raz
Isser Harel
Michael Aronov
Zvi Aharoni
Ohad Knoller
Ephraim Ilian
Torben Liebrecht
Yaakov Gat
Haley Lu Richardson
Sylvia Hermann
Pêpê Rapazote
Carlos Fuldner
Simon Russell Beale
David Ben-Gurion
Rita Pauls
Fruma
Greta Scacchi
Vera Eichmann
Greg Hill
Moshe Tabor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Peter Malkin later became an artist, painting the capture scene from memory.
Eichmann's 1961 trial was the first globally televised trial, essentially inventing 'the documentary' as we know it.
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