改编自著名历史真实事件：以色列摩萨德组织追捕纳粹德国高官、被称为“死刑执行者”的阿道夫·艾希曼的故事。金斯利饰演艾希曼；阿尔文饰他最年长的儿子克劳斯，在追捕行动期间为了隐藏父亲的身份而谎称是他叔叔；伊萨克饰摩萨德小队领导Peter Malkin，与罗兰饰演的小队唯一女性、麻醉学者Hanna有感情戏；理查森饰克劳斯的女友Sylvia Herman，她起初不顾家人警告和反对疯狂爱上了克劳斯，最终转投摩萨德；阿隆诺夫饰摩萨德特工Zvi Aharoni，傲慢不羁，经常和Peter Malkin发生争执；拉兹饰摩萨德局长Isser Harel。
1960年，以色列宣布抓捕到前纳粹德国高官、素有“死刑执行者”之称的阿道夫·艾希曼，并于1961年在耶路撒冷进行审判。已在美国居住多年的著名犹太女哲学家汉娜·阿伦特（巴巴拉·苏科瓦 Barbara Sukowa 饰）受《纽约人》邀请为此次审判撰稿。当汉娜·阿伦特前往耶路撒冷观看审判后，却在艾希曼的阐述、民意和自己的哲学思考之间发现了分歧。当阿伦特将艾希曼当年的行为提高到哲学的高度，她的文章不出所料地引发了社会上的恶评和抨击，一些汉娜·阿伦特的老友甚至和她绝交反目。这个当年海德格尔门下最得意的女学生在急风骤雨中想全身而退，却发现一切都已经不像自己预计的那样简单。 ©豆瓣
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.
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
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.
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.
Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, the last two survivors of the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, recount the horrors they experienced during the war and talk about their lives after their escape in a prisoner uprising in 1943. Willenberg would go on to become a hero of the 1944 Warsaw uprising while Taigman would be called as a witness during the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann.
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.
