Holocaust "architect" biopic
Adolf Eichmann was the key administrator behind the Nazi's attempt at their "Final Solution", and there's about to be a UK film made about his final days.
After the war Eichmann fled to South America, but the Isreali Secret Service, Mossad, weren't going to give him up that easily and in 1960 he was kidnapped. A year later he was on trial in Jerusalem and hanged till he was dead.
According to The Guardian, before he was executed an Isreali officer called Captain Avner Less cross-examined him and heard his confessions of how he was in charge of the logistics of mass deportations and the extermination camps. A cold and chilling man indeed.
The film will concentrate on this interview with flashbacks to the war and stars Thomas Kretschmann as Eichmann, which is also the name of the film, Troy Garity (Jane Fonda's son no less), and there will be a part for the superbly talented and personal favourite of mine, Stephen Fry.
The film is to be a British and Hungarian joint venture, and shooting will be in Hungary and Malta. Robert Young, who has directed various features and TV films including a few episodes of Battlestar Galactica, is set to direct.
I'm really interested in this one, it could have great potential. An Isreali officer interviewing the man who effectively ran the Holocaust, just before he is executed. There's lot's of tension and scope for historical story telling. Not to mention the incredibly powerful topic, something that none of us should forget.
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