CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

davidhill-94841 Okay so you have a cast of excellent actors and an seriously important story that needs, like 'Shchindler's List', to be told, so why make an unbelievable, disjointed, completely out of place titillating, mess of telling it.This Adolf Eichmann, in flash backs, had more in common with a stock character out of the British WW2 sitcom 'Alo Alo' than the blandly evil man he really was. There should be some sort of tacit agreement in Holywood under which all drama/documentaries, on the subject of the holocaust, are to follow strict guidelines of authenticity and due respect for the subject matter.

Andres Salama This acceptable biopic deals basically with the pretrial interrogation of Adolf Eichmann after he was captured in Argentina and brought to Israel. In the interrogation, he insists his role in the Holocaust was minor, just a sort of transport commissioner who has to make sure the different prisoners arrive on time at each concentration camp. This is contrasted with flashbacks from Eichmann during World War II, showing him directly in charge of the extermination of Jews. His main interrogator is a police captain, and the movie shows some of his background, how his role affects his family life, etc. German actor Thomas Kretschmann, who has made a career of playing Nazi officers (in Downfall, Stalingrad and Valkyrie, for instance) is very good as the Nazi criminal. So is Troy Garity playing the Israeli detective. Maybe the movie would have benefited from a larger scope – it includes nothing of Eichmann during the trial itself, very few about his life in Argentina, his capture is dealt in just one quick scene. And there were a few scenes that sounded false to me. For example, Eichmann is seen making love to a Hungarian mistress during the war and to get her hot he tells her the amounts of people he ordered killed. Or in another scene the same lady dares Eichmann to kill a baby. Maybe it really happened but the way it is portrayed in the movie sounded downright false and tasteless to me. These few objections aside, this is not a bad film.

damkina They say is based upon the israeli documents. But would be correctly to say we can see a typically classic nazi portrait, based upon newspapers with great fantasy. This is recognizable principally in his privat life. The real Eichmann had an autrian mistress, named Maria Masenbucher in Doppel. The filmmakers changed her story to a Jewish mistress's, furthermore created a fictitious name to her, although even her exist is not really fact.And the other mistress Ingrid. However she existed but her acts and portray is also fiction. She was not a hungarian noble descendant, her name is after her husband. Eichmann started an affair with her in 1944 and before the end of the year brought her over to Austria. Avner Less has never mentioned her, but Eichmann only in one sentence, that she was lived with her mother in Hungary and had a factory, and called her Ihne (not Ihama). Well, this baby story is from a newspaper, in what a guard (not she) brought a baby into Eichmann office in Poland and not in Hungary. So in accordance with this cheat, they changed the smart and dashing real hungarian mistress to a crazed and gruesome fictitious blonde, and created a new affair for them in two scenes. While he's sitting in uniform she's arriving naked, statistics about deportation in bedroom, a baby in office? Rather in a nazi-blonde parody, please not in a documentary-drama. I'm sorry, the creators have bungled the movie with these fakes. It is a thing that he was, who deported the jews to the camps, but why need to take this into his privat life and change his affairs, furthermore to make a pretence his entire life was about the jews?

mc2-1 I've seen this film and I thought it was very good. It reminds me of some of the movies made in the 70's which though essentially B movies rose to the status of great art. Films like "Charley Varrick" and "The Driver".It has a great gutsy approach to storytelling in the mold of someone like Fuller, bold, teetering on cliché, but with an intimacy and great power.The central performances are both compelling. Kretschmann is brilliant. Troy Garity provides a performance best in his blossoming career.The films greatest power is in the detail. It unswervingly faces the sometimes overwhelming amount of information and puts it on the screen. Its the detail (in the script) and the refusal to avoid this in the dialogue that makes the film so hypnotic.