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The Specialist

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120 min. Feature Documentary The Specialist

Co-Producer: Amit Breuer
Director: Eyal Sivan
Co-Production with Momento - France, WDR - Germany,
Image Creation - Belgium, BIFF - Germany, Lotus - Austria,
IKON - The Netherlands, Amythos Productions - Israel,
Noga Communications - Israel.
• World Premiere, Official Selection Out of Competition, Berlin Film Festival 1999.

Synopsis

This is a courtroom drama, which sketches the portrait of a dedicated bureaucrat, who has tremendous respect for the law and the hierarchy, a Nazi officer, responsible for the liquidation of several million human beings. The film is composed entirely of excerpts from the 350 hours of raw material, filmed in 1961, during the dramatic trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in Jerusalem. The discrepancy between Eichmann's monstrous crimes and his mediocre personality is striking.