Bureau 06

I'm coming back from the movie's premiere at a film festival and still can't quite explain the experience in its entirety.

I can tell you, however, that I would strongly recommend watching this movie if you're interested in either the bigger question of how we try and understand something like the Holocaust or just interested in the personal stories of the people who were in charge of interrogating Eichmann in 1960, presenting the Israeli public (and the world) with his crimes. It'll be a fascinating watch whichever angle you approach this 59-minute documentary from.

If I had to boil it down to just one point - this movie is about how impossible it is to put the Holocaust on trial (symbolically, historically, physically) and how vital it is that we do.

Representative of this and most intriguing for me was the character of Miki (Goldman) Gilad, a boy who survived the camps only to lose his family in the Holocaust. He went on to becoming one of the police officers in charge of the investigation and he perfectly embodies the ambivalence and impossibility of this encounter. He's an impressive figure who managed to maintain his professionalism throughout, yet (slight hint of a spoiler here) he did take a small, symbolic revenge on his prisoner, then he himself disputes his own narration of this story - this was a revenge? Was hanging Eichmann a revenge? Can there even be one?