Hunt for Eichmann
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hunt for Eichmann |
| Original title | Operation Eichmann |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | RG Springsteen |
| script | Lester Cole |
| production |
Samuel Bishop David Diamond |
| music | June Starr |
| camera | Joseph F. Biroc |
| cut | Roy V. Livingston |
| occupation | |
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Hunt for Eichmann (in the original: Operation Eichmann ) is an American drama film directed by RG Springsteen with Werner Klemperer in the lead role of the war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who went into hiding in South America .
action
The main narrative is Eichmann's years of escape with his stays in various hiding places in Germany, Madrid, Kuwait and finally South America. The film begins with the last few months in office in 1944/45, when Eichmann vehemently promotes the “ final solution to the Jewish question ”. With a smile on his face he sees how Jews are being sent into a gas chamber in an "action". The film Eichmann proudly states that he is right behind Martin Bormann and Heinrich Himmler when it comes to the extermination of the Jews . A little later, the Second World War is lost and Eichmann has to go underground.
At the side of his somewhat stupid lover Anna Kemp, he flees from the Allied captors, first to Spain, then to Kuwait and finally to Argentina, where he feels comparatively safe. Kurt Kessner, the leader of the NS emergency aid organization there, initially helped him until one day Eichmann's celebrities got too hot for him too. Despite his fear of being caught, Eichmann never abandons his arrogance and arrogance of man. Detected by Israeli secret service agents after a tip from the Federal Republic of Germany in Buenos Aires at the end of the 1950s, Adolf Eichmann was overpowered in a night-and-fog operation in May 1960, kidnapped and taken to Israel, where he was to be tried. This ends the film.
Production notes and trivia
Operation Eichmann was a cinematic snap shot shot in the second half of 1960 as an immediate reaction to the arrest of the organizer of the murder of millions of Jews on May 11, 1960 in a district of Buenos Aires . At the time of the premiere (March 15, 1961), the trial against the former SS-Obersturmbannführer (April 11 to December 15, 1961) had not yet started. While this B-Picture, usually staged by the director Springsteen, who usually specializes in westerns, was never shown in Germany, the flick was shown in Austria under the title Jagd auf Eichmann from May 16, 1961.
Rudi Feld designed the film structures, Charles Duncan the special effects. Alex Alexander took over the musical direction.
Klemperer and his fellow actor John Banner , who plays the concentration camp commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Höss , stood together in front of the camera a few years later in the comedic television series A Cage Full of Heroes . There they embodied two very dumb Stalag Nazis.
criticism
“Carefully underlined with somber warnings and an indignant narrative, this strangely ambivalent film combines history with familiar cloak-and-epee film decorations. (…) But in terms of the extraordinary effect, nothing can surpass the black and white images that we are currently able to experience of the process transfer from Israel. (...) Minus the restraint and the power of suggestion, the film seen yesterday describes in a shrill way the wavering reign of a terrible lunatic who falls for justice years later. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: "According to, not in terms of the facts, but in the reactions of those involved, a somewhat exaggerated prehistory, an adventure story about Eichmann and his kidnapping ... at set locations ..."
"Somewhat fascinating story about the post-war life of the Nazi leader and his capture by the Israelis."
“Crude exploitation of an object that only serves to get money out of the Eichmann trial. Documentation on this topic would have been far more interesting. "
Web links
- Hunt for Eichmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- extensive review in the New York Times
Individual evidence
- ↑ The critic of the New York Times speaks in the May 4th 1961 issue of "obviously a rush job"
- ↑ The hunt for Eichmann in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
