Eichmann

Duration:

96 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | History | War

IMDB rate:

5.9

Director:

Robert Young

Details

Country: Hungary

Filming Locations: Budapest, Hungary

Cast

Actor

Character

Franka Potente

Avner W. Less

Himself (voice) (archive footage)

Thomas Kretschmann

Adolf Eichmann

Troy Garity

Avner Less

Stephen Fry

Minister Tormer

Delaine Yates

Miriam Fröhlich

Tereza Srbová

Baroness Ingrid von Ihama

Judit Viktor

Ann Marie

Stephen Greif

Hans Lipmann

Dénes Bernáth

Benjamin

Bernadett Kis

Sarah

Tilly O'Neil

Hannah (as Tilly Golding)

László Bereczki

David

Alexis Latham

Dubois

Scott Alexander Young

Robert Servatius

Béla Fesztbaum

Dr. Kastner

Melissa Franklyn

Policewoman

Péter Ambrus

Abraham Less

Péter Geltz

Old Guard

Máté Endrédi

Young Guard

Nikolett P. Jancsovics

Ruth

Kerstin Sekimoto

Secretary

Eszter Palóc

Woman Interpreter

Andrew Hefler

Young Doctor

Péter Laczó

Dieter Eichmann

Krisztián Vörös

Klaus Eichmann

Ádám Vadas

Horst Eichmann

Viktor Noé

SS Officer

Gyula Mesterházy

Nazi Official

László Barnák

Night Guard (Young)

Shy Heller

Night Guard (Old)

Richard Rifkin

Elderly Man

János Mercs

French Speaking Officer

Attila Müller

Eichmann's Chauffeur

István Göz

German Interpreter

Abdul Sattar Rehani

Husseini

Stephen Buhagiar

Locksmith

John Baddeley

Radio Presenter (voice)

Anna Cachia

Protester (uncredited)

Brenda Camilleri

Protester (uncredited)

Heinrich Himmler

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ilona Kassai

Mrs. Schaffhausen (uncredited)

Samuel Montague

Delivery Boy (uncredited)

Oliver Simor

Telephone Operator (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

According to CIA documents released in 2006, U.S. and West German intelligence knew that Eichmann was hiding in Argentina in 1958. But they revealed nothing, fearing he might expose former comrades who had been useful to the CIA or the German government.

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According to a British reporter on location, fellow cast members Troy Garity and Thomas Kretschmann were so upset with script revisions of the baby-in-office scene that Kretschmann promptly threw them in the trash, explaining, 'I'll just file this here for safekeeping.' The revisions were later dropped.

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The movie is largely based on the 1983 book 'Eichmann's Interrogated,' which contains the core of the 275 hours of pre-trial questioning of Eichmann by German-born, Israeli police officer Less, Avner W. whose actual voice is heard over the final credits.

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Goofs

Adolf Eichmann's uniform shows the SS Runes patch. Eichmann's dept RSHA Referat IV B4 was under Reinhard Heydrich and the SD Security Service. The right collar patch on his uniform should be solid black with an SD diamond patch on his bottom left jacket sleeve. Pre-1934 he wore the standard SS officer uniform with the SS Runes. But not after 1934 when he started working for RSHA Referat IV B4 dept and the SD.

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The scene in Theresienstadt which we are told is set in April 1945 where he discusses sending trains from there to Auschwitz - a somewhat pointless exercise as the Soviet Army had liberated Auschwitz in January 1945.

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Historical inaccuracies abound, for instance Eichmann is depicted as leaving for Hungary in 1942 - two years before he actually did so. Similarly in the scene where he is having sex with the Hungarian Baroness he enumerates the numbers of Jews he has killed - even though we have just been told that this is 1943 and in fact most of the deportations and exterminations he lists have not yet taken place. And in his later recollection of this scene in prison he states that it took place while the Reich was collapsing - although in 1943 it still ruled most of Europe.

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Quotes

Avner Less: [after Eichmann's interrogation and trial] We showed him more justice than he ever showed us.

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Adolf Eichmann: [Prison guard is showing him a newspaper which reads "Eichmann Captured"] Yes, I know...

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Minister Tormer: If you had done it, would you want to confess?

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