THE SPECIALIST
[UN SPÉCIALISTE, PORTRAIT D’UN CRIMINEL MODERNE]
by Eyal Sivan
Israel/Germany/France/Austria/Belgium 1999 Betacam SP 128 min. OV Germ. ST
An unbelievable courtroom drama – the trial against Adolf Eichmann, who by Hitler’s order deported millions of innocent people to extermination camps. THE SPECIALIST shows the perverted serial killer behind the mask of a caring family man. Eyan Sival draws the portrait of an obliging bureaucrat, going about his extermination work with deep respect for laws, decrees and hierarchies. In court SS-officer Eichmann, who sees his killing business as logistical masterpiece, has to comment on the accusations against him. Behind his mask – the incarnation of evil, a criminal in modern times.
