The specialist : portrait of a modern criminal / Momento! presents a film by Rony Brauman & Eyal Sivan ; producer, Eyal Sivan ; writers, Rony Brauman, Eyal Sivan ; director, Eyal Sivan.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann in Jerusalem, author.

Contributor:

Sivan, Eyal, director, producer, screenwriter.

Brauman, Rony, screenwriter.

Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962, associated name.

Servatius, Robert, 1894-1983, associated name.

Hausner, Gideon, 1915-1990, associated name.

Bach, Gabriel, associated name.

Bor Or, Ya'akov, associated name.

Maurion, Audrey, 1966- editor.

Hurwitz, Leo, director of photography.

Levy, Krishna, composer.

Levy, Jean-Michel, composer.

Robert, Yves, 1920-2002, composer.

Thiriet, Béatrice, composer.

Momento! (Firm), producer.

Home Vision Entertainment (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

French

German

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962--Trials, litigation, etc.

Eichmann, Adolf.

Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962.

War crime trials--Jerusalem.

War crime trials.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Genre:

Feature films.

Documentary films.

Film adaptations.

Trials, litigation, etc.

Video recordings.

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Chicago, IL] : Home Vision Entertainment, [2002]

Language Note:

Hebrew and German dialogue, English, French or German subtitles.

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital surround.

digital

optical

surround

Dolby

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Lt. Colonel SS, Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the expulsion of Jews, Slovenians, and Gypsies from the Reich between 1938 and 1941, and later, their deportation from Europe to the death camps. Hiding in Argentina, he was captured by the Israeli secret service in 1960. His trial took place in Jerusalem the following year and was the first public event ever recorded on video. This stresses the contrast between monstrosity of the crime and the mediocrity of the man.

Participant:

Persons shown in the film include Adolf Eichman, Robert Servatius, Gideon Hausner, Gariel Bach, Ya'akov Bor Or.

Credits:

Editor, Audrey Maurion ; original music, Krishna Levy, Jean-Michel Levy, Yves Robert, Béatrice Thiriet.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.

"Inspired by "Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil" by Hannah Arendt."

Special features: 60 minute interview with authors Rony Brauman and Eyal Sivan; excerpt from the book "In praise of disobedience"; original theatrical trailer; all texts available in English, German and French.

Produced entirely from footage recorded in 1961 in Jerusalem at the Adolf Eichmann trial by Leo Hurwitz.

Related Work:

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann in Jerusalem, author.

ISBN:

0780025865

9780780025868

OCLC:

51171534

Publisher Number:

037429170021

SPE030 Home Vision Entertainment