ID

FBW002907      Dokumentarfilm

Land / Jahr

USA, 1997

Originaltitel

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

Regie

David Brinkley (Reporter)

Produktion

Great Projects Film Company, Inc., New York, NY; für ABC (American Broadcasting Company) (ABC News Productions), New York, NY

Prod. / Stab

Produzent: Daniel B. Polin, Kenneth Mandel; Executive Producer: William M. Abrams, Pete Simmons, Lisa Zeff; Associate Producer: Seth Kramer; Ko-Produzent: Daniel A. Miller; Produzent, div: Betsy Rosenfield (Director of Operations for ABC); Produktionsleitung: Amy Adams (ABC); Produktionskoordination: Yuval Lotem; Übersetzung: Andrea Merow, Maurice Tszorf; Kamera: Yoram Millo; Kameraassistenz: Guy Hirshfeld; Schnitt: Benno Schoberth, Stan Warnow, David Spungen (Online Editor); Tonschnitt: Rick Dior (Re-Recording Mixer, Sync Sound); Ton: Meir Alfasi, Uri Buzaglo; Technische Leitung: Lea Schneidermann (Director of Technical Operations for ABC); Grafik: Tim Camuti; Animation: Neil Murphy (Photo Animation, Edgeworx), Robert Rodriguez (Photo Animation for ABCNews Productions); Musik: T.O. Sterret; Stimmen: Brian Bedford (Adolf Eichmann), Peter Gallagher (Gideon Hausner), Ed Asner (Robert Servatius), Eli Wallach (David Ben Gurion / Pinchas Freudiger), Sam Robards (Avraham Aviel), Anne Jackson (Ada Lichtman), Jeff DeMunn (Moshe Beisky / Martin Földi), Lou Diamond Phillips (Abba Kovner / Eliahu Rosenberg), Stephen Lang (Aaron Lindenstrauss / Joseph Melkman), Eric Bogosian (Franz Meyer / Israel Gutman), Tony Roberts (Heinrich-Karl Grüber / George Wellers), Bruce Davison (Yehiel De-Nur, "Ka-Tzetnik 135663"), Lou Jacobi (Yitzhak Raveh), Larry Block (Moshe Landau / Yaacov Baror / Gabriel Bach), Marvin Einhorn (Eliahu Rosenberg / Michael Goldmann-Gilead), Herb Rubens (Joseph Zalman Kleinman / Yitzhak Zuckerman / Benjamin Halevi), Lucy McMichael (Aviva Fleischmann), Garry Godrow (Isser Harel); Beratung: Michael Epstein (Editorial Consultant), Ken Levis (Editorial Consultant); Historische Beratung: Steven Katz; Recherche: Ethan Barshay, Sarah Bober, Jed Friedman, Tsipi Haikasky, Alexandra Yalakidis; Casting: Jan Ubell; Mitwirkung: Ellen Bakalian (Education Coordinator for ABC)

Darsteller

Larry Block

Auftritt

Pinchas Freudiger (Witness); Martin Földi (Witness); Adolf Eichmann (Head of the Judenreferat); Aviva Fleischmann (Witness); Eliahu Rosenberg (Witness); Robert Servatius (Attorney for the Defense); Zvi Terlo (Deputy State Attorney); David Ben Gurion; Gideon Hausner (Head of Eichmann prosecution, Attorney General of the State of Israel); Moshe Landau (Presiding Judge); Benjamin Halevi (Judge); Yitzhak Raveh (Judge, president of the Tel Aviv District Court); Itzhak Zuckermann (Witness); Aaron Lindenstrauss; Franz Meyer (Witness); Heinrich Grüber (Witness); Lian Wells (Witness); Michael Musmano (Witness); Abba Kovner (Witness); Avraham Aviel (Witness); George Wellers (Witness); Yehiel De-Nur ("Ka-Tzetnik 135663"); Martin Agronsky; Ada Lichtman (Witness); Joseph Melkman (Witness)

Erwähnung

Willem Sassen; Rudolf Höss (Auschwitz commandant); Adolf Hitler; Heinrich Himmler (Reichsführer SS, Innenminister); Reinhard Heydrich

Statement(s) von

Yaacov Baror (Deputy State Attorney); Joseph Zalman Kleinman (Witness); Isser Harel (Secret Service Mossad, Director); Zwi Zimmermann (Witness); Michael Goldmann-Gilead (Special assistant to General Attorney Gideon Hausner); Geoffrey Wigoder (BBC Correspondent); Yehudit Hausner (Wife of Gideon Hausner); Gabriel Bach (Deputy State Attorney); Israel Gutman (Witness); Moche Beisky (Witness); Dov Freiberg (Witness)

Länge

120'

Synopsis

Dokumentarfilm über den Eichmann-Prozess. Eichmann war wegen seiner herausragenden Rolle bei der Deportation der Europäischen Juden in die Vernichtungslager Ziel einer 15jährigen Jagd israleischer Agenten. Zeitgenössische Filmaufnahmen aus dem Prozess, Erinnerungen von Prozesszeugen und weiterer Schlüsselfiguren des Prozesses ergeben einen differenzierten Einblick in die divergierenden Strategien von Anklage und Verteidigung.

Schlagworte

1960-1969; Buenos Aires; Eichmann-Prozess; Jerusalem

Inhalt (detailliert)

Shotlist:
- Excerpts of Pinhas Freudiger testimony's
- Spectator taken out of the courtroom
- Commotion in the courtroom
- Freudiger reading reports of Auschwitz
- Footage of people leaving the trains
- Testimony of Martin Foeldi about selection at Auschwitz
- Background story of the witness
- Narrator's commentary about Foeldi's testimony
- Footage of railroad in ruin in 1944
- Adolf Eichmann (stills) and biographical explanation about Eichmann's decision of carrying out deportation by "Footmarch" despite Himmler's orders
- Aviva Fleischmann's testimony
- Eliahu Rosenberg's testimony about Treblinka and the gas chambers
- Crematorium at Auschwitz
- Footage Liberation of the camps by allies
- Eichmann taking the oath
- Commentary about the strategy adopted by Robert Servatius
- Eichmann speaking about his Hebrew studies
- Speaking about himself as a bureaucrat
- Eichmann testifying about the Wannsee Conference
- Cross-examination by the Attorney General about the Wannsee Conference, and about the number of passagers in a wagon
- Geoffrey Wigoder's commentary about Eichmann being a simple bureaucrat
- Assistant Prosecuter Gabriel Bach speaks about the rotation in other departments
- Assistant Prosecutor Yaacov Baror speaks about document signed by Eichmann
- Assistant Prosecutor Zvi Terlo speaks about Eichmann as a witness, rational, cool and about the frustrating parts of the trial
- The public
- Bach about the Sassen document, about Eichmann's time in Argentina and about Wilhelm Sassen publishing the documents in the Life Magazine
- Eichmann (still) and the Life Magazines's frontpage (still)
- Bach speaks about the Hoess memoire's
- Stills of inmates
- Auschwitz gate
- The Knesset
- Footage of 18 August 1961
- NBC News announcing the end of the trial
- November 1961 interview with Isser Harel
- Wigoder explains the attitude of the survivors of not relating their stories till the trial
- Moshe Beisky survivor of Plaszow labor camp, explains why he did not speak out till the trial
- Joseph Zalman Kleinman explains the importance of the trial
- Witnesses (still)
- Dov Freiberg, survivor of Sobibor speaks about his life today
- 1961 Eichmann's conviction
- OV Jerusalem and the sea
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem

Vor- / Nachspann

- 1. The trial of Adolf Eichmann
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- 1. The trial / of / Adolf Eichmann / [...] /
- 2. Reporter / David Brinkley
- 3. Producers / Daniel B. Polin / Kenneth Mandel
- 4. Editors / Benno Schoberth / Stan Warnow
- 5. Co-Producer / Daniel A. Miller / Associate Producer / Seth Kramer
- 6. Music / T. O. Sterrett
- 7. Re-Recording Mixer / Rich Dior, Sync Sound / Researchers / Ethan Barshay / Sarah Bober / Jed Friedman / Tsipi Haikesky / Alexandra Yalakidis / Editorial Consultants / Michael Epstein / Ken Levis / Historical Advisor / Steven Katz / Casting / Jan Ubell / Sound Editing / Sound Dimensions Editorial / Accounting / Art Money Management, Inc. / Photo Animation / Edgeworx / Neil Murphy / Graphics / Tim Camuti / Camera / Yoram Millo / Assistant Camera / Guy Hirshfeld / Sound / Meir Alfasi / Uri Buzaglo / Production Coordinator / Yural Lotem / Translator / Andrea Merow / Maurice Tszorf / Translation read by / Adolf Eichmann BRIAN BEDFORD / Gideon Hausner PETER GALLAGHER / Dr. Robert Servatius ED ASNER / David Ben-Gurion ELI WALLACH / Pinchas Freudiger / Aaron Lindenstrauss STEPHEN LANG / Dr. Joseph Melkam / Franz Meyer ERIC BOGOSIAN / Israel Gutman / Heinrich Karl Grüber TONY ROBERTS / George Wellers / Ada Lichtman ANNE JACKSON / Moshe Beisky JEFF DeMUMM / Martin Földi / Abba Kovner LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS / Eliahu Rosenberg / Avraham Aviel SAM ROBARDS / Yehiel "Katzetnik" De-Nur BRUCE DAVISON / Judge Yitzak Raveh LOU JACOBI / Judge Moshe Landau LARRY BLOCK / Yaacov Baror / Gavriel Bach / Eliahu Rosenberg MARVIN EINHORN / Michael Goldmann-Gilead / Joseph Kleinman HERB RUBENS / Yitzak Zuckerman / Judge Benjamin Halevi / Aviva Fleischmann LUCY McMICHAEL / Isser Harel GARRY GODROW / For ABC News Productions / Director of Operations / Betsy Rosenfield / Production Manager / Amy Adams / Director of Technical Operations / Lea Schneidemann / On-Line Editor / David Spungen / Education Coordinator / Ellen Bakalin / Photo Animation / Roberto Rodriguez / [...] / Special Thanks / Eileen, Kate and Ben / Mindy M. Krazmien / Jill Mitchell / Kristen Nielsen / Susan Pazos / William Morris Agency, Inc. / Executive Producers / William M. Abrams / Pete Simmons / Lisa Zeff / Worldwide distribution by / Devillier Donegan Enterprises / Produced by Great Projects Film Company, Inc. For ABC News Productions
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