The Eichmann Show (2015)

01/20/2015Drama, History, TV Movie1h 30m
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The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how the trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.

Top Billed Cast

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    Anthony LaPaglia

    Leo Hurwitz

  2. Cast 1

    Martin Freeman

    Milton Fruchtman

  3. Cast 1

    Rebecca Front

    Mrs Landau

  4. Cast 1

    Andy Nyman

    David Landor

  5. Cast 1

    Nicholas Woodeson

    Yaakov Jonilowicz

  6. Cast 1

    Ben Addis

    Ron Huntsman

  7. Cast 1

    Samuel West

    Narrator

  8. Caroline Bartleet

    Judy Gold

  9. Cast 1

    Morwenna Banks

    Female Translator (voice)

> Behind story of a historical event's TV documentation. This BBC film was based on the actual event that took place in the early 60s, Jerusalem. About televising the trial from a courtroom, which was the first ever documentary series to broadcast. One of a top Nazi officer, Adolf Eichmann, who fled during the end of world war two and settled down in the South America, but brought back with the help of Mossad to Israel to face the war crime charges. The movie won't demonstrate all those in the picture, but it begins with the television production house preparing to shoot the important tele...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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