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Eichmann is a very good film


I've seen a rough of the film and I think it's exellent. It reminds me a bit of the old seventies war films, with a kind of small hard boiled story about a a big part of history. Kretchman is brilliant.

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The bits with Eichmann were good, the rest of the film was trash tbh. The family etc were entirely pointless.

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The movie is not excellent. Its middle. Between 5-6 points. Excellent would mean between 9-10 points. Its a B Movie made for TV. Its not a cinema movie.

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Thomas Kretschmann was great, played his part very well and captured Eichmanns mannerisms perfectly. Shame we didnt get to see him hang at the end

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Oh no it isn't.

It is an unhistorical mess - the writers clearly felt there was insufficient sex and violence so they inserted complete fictions like Eichmann counting off his victims while having sex, shooting a baby in his office, riots outside the prison where he is held in Jerusalem, a mass shooting of slave labourers at Eichmann's Austrian farm where it would have been much more convenient to take them back to their camp for execution - all utter nonsense.

And virtually every date is wrong - Eichmann boasts of killing half a million Hungarian Jews a year before a single Jew was deported from Hungary, he discusses sending trains from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz three months after the camp was liberated by the Russians, he leaves for Hungary in 1942 rather than 1944 and so on.

The dialogue is also unbelievably poorly written - meaning that only the scenes where Eichmann is more or less speaking his own words from the interrogation record carry any conviction at all.

Its a real pity that actors of the quality of Thomas Kretschmann and Franka Potente were wasted on this rubbish - with a decent script Kretschmann could probably have given the definitive performance as Eichmann.

If you really want to learn about Eichmann read David Cesarani's book.

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If you really want to learn about Eichmann read David Cesarani's book
I thought Neal Bascombe's (sp?) book was good as well.

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