Eichmann (2007)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Robert Young

Writer:

Snoo Wilson (writer)

Release Date:

21 July 2008 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | History

Plot:

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less...

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title

Cast

Thomas Kretschmann	...	Adolf Eichmann
Troy Garity	...	Avner Less
Franka Potente	...	Vera Less
Stephen Fry	...	Minister Tormer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
László Barnák	...	Night Young Guard
Dénes Bernáth	...	Benjamin
Anna Cachia	...	Protester
Brenda Camilleri	...	Protester
Máté Endrédi	...	Young Guard
Béla Fesztbaum	...	Dr. Kastner
Péter Geltz	...	Old Guard
Stephen Greif	...	Hans Lipman
Shy Heller	...	Night Old Guard
Ilona Kassai	...	Mrs. Schaffhausen
Péter Laczó	...	Klaus
Gábor Matejka	...	Mafia Driver
Samuel Montague	...	Delivery Boy
Attila Müller	...	Chauffeaur
Tilly O'Neil	...	Child Hanna Less - Anvers daughter
Richard Rifkin	...	Elderly Man
Abdul Sattar Rehani	...	Husseini
Kerstin Sekimoto	...	Eichmann's secretary
Oliver Simor	...	Telephone Operator
Tereza Srbova
Ádám Vadas	...	Horst
Krisztián Vörös	...	Dieter
Delaine Yates	...	Miriam Frolich
Scott Alexander Young	...	Dr. Robert Servatius

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Hungary | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Finland:K-13

Filming Locations:

Fot Studios, Budapest, Hungary

Company:

Entertainment Motion Pictures (E-MOTION)

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the scene where the minister leaves the room after telling Avner that his father had been sent to Auschwitz by Eichmann, a large contemporary map of Europe is visible on the wall. The maps contains the re-unified Germany, the successor states of the Soviet Union, the broken up former Yugoslavia, and the split Czech and Slovak Republics - which is the late 1990s status and not 1960/61.

An excellent film with a compelling performance from Kretschmann

I've seen this film and I thought it was very good. It reminds me of some of the movies made in the 70's which though essentially B movies rose to the status of great art. Films like "Charley Varrick" and "The Driver".

It has a great gutsy approach to storytelling in the mold of someone like Fuller, bold, teetering on cliché, but with an intimacy and great power.

The central performances are both compelling. Kretschmann is brilliant. Troy Garity provides a performance best in his blossoming career.

The films greatest power is in the detail. It unswervingly faces the sometimes overwhelming amount of information and puts it on the screen. Its the detail (in the script) and the refusal to avoid this in the dialogue that makes the film so hypnotic.