Bureau 06

Name: Lishka 06
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Shir Biran, Roni Gammer, Oded Menaster

Original title: Lishka 06

20132013
58m

6.7/10

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This is the dramatic story of Bureau 06, the team of police investigators formed for the sole purpose of investigating and preparing the grave charges brought by the Jewish people against Ad... Read allThis is the dramatic story of Bureau 06, the team of police investigators formed for the sole purpose of investigating and preparing the grave charges brought by the Jewish people against Adolf Eichmann, during the trial that took place in Jerusalem, 1961. The Eichmann trial pres... Read allThis is the dramatic story of Bureau 06, the team of police investigators formed for the sole purpose of investigating and preparing the grave charges brought by the Jewish people against Adolf Eichmann, during the trial that took place in Jerusalem, 1961. The Eichmann trial presented the story of the Shoah to the entire world in a way that had never been told before.... Read all

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Director
- Yoav Halevy
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- Yoav Halevy
- Anat Tzom Ayalon
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This is the dramatic story of Bureau 06, the team of police investigators formed for the sole purpose of investigating and preparing the grave charges brought by the Jewish people against Adolf Eichmann, during the trial that took place in Jerusalem, 1961. The Eichmann trial presented the story of the Shoah to the entire world in a way that had never been told before. This film reveals the unique personal and shared stories of the team of investigators, their hardships, their confessions and the emotional turmoil they experienced, while trying to revive the "act of evil" for the very first time. After the investigation was concluded and the charges brought forth, most of the investigators were emotionally drained and did not appear at the trial. Of special note is the story of Avner Less, Eichmann's personal interrogator, who spent more than 275 hours with Eichmann, left Israel after the trial, and reclaimed his German identity card. —Jerusalem Film Festival

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The impossibility and vitality of Eichmann's trial

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?

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