15 años después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un equipo de agentes secretos se reúne para rastrear a Adolf Eichmann, el infame arquitecto nazi del Holocausto, que había escapado de la justicia tras la guerra.
Gira en torno a la figura de la filósofa judío-alemana Hannah Arendt, que trabajó como reportera cubriendo el juicio a Adolf Eichmann, el nazi que organizó el genocidio contra los judíos. (FILMAFFINITY)
The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her 1963 book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann (1906-62), held in Israel in 1961, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine.
In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.
Composed exclusively of the footage recorded by Leo Hurwitz during the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, A Specialist is a courtroom drama painting the portait of a zealous bureaucrat who has immense respect for the Law and hierarchy, a police official responsible for the elimination of several million people, a modern criminal.
In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. Through rarely-seen archival footage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials ever recorded, and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education.
Los nazis, en un lugar no tan secreto, casi a simple vista, viajan a Bolonia, Italia, comenzando una concentración en un grupo secreto de inteligencia de Dwight David Eisenhower.
Los dos últimos supervivientes de Treblinka, el campo de exterminio nazi en Polonia, relatan el infierno que vivieron, la rebelión en la que escaparon, el levantamiento del gueto de Varsovia y el juicio de Adolf Eichmann.
