The Eichmann Show

The Eichmann Show
The Eichmann Show
Directed by	Paul Andrew Williams
Written by	Simon Block
Starring	Martin Freeman ; Anthony LaPaglia
Cinematography	Carlos Catalan
Edited by	James Taylor
Music by	Laura Rossi
Distributed by	BBC Two (UK); Weinstein Company (US);
Release date	20 January 2015 (United Kingdom);
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Eichmann Show is a 2015 British BBC TV drama film produced by Laurence Bowen and Ken Marshall for Feelgood Fiction and directed by Paul Andrew Williams.

It is based on the true story of how American TV producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz came to broadcast the trial of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann in 1961.^[4]

Plot

In 1961 former Nazi Adolf Eichmann is captured by Israeli agents and put on trial. American television producer Milton Fruchtman fervently believes that the trial with its witness accounts of Nazi atrocities should be televised to show the world the evils of the Holocaust and to combat any resurgence of Nazism and joins forces with black-listed director Leo Hurwitz. Despite death threats, reluctance to cooperate from several networks and even resistance from the Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion, who fears a 'show trial', the pair persist and move their cameras into the court-room. Edited daily and shown in some three dozen countries the 'Eichmann Show' becomes the first ever global television documentary.

Cast

Martin Freeman as Milton Fruchtman
Anthony LaPaglia as Leo Hurwitz
Rebecca Front as Mrs. Landau
Andy Nyman as David Landor
Nicholas Woodeson as Yaakov Jonilowicz
Ben Addis as Ron Huntsman
Caroline Bartleet as Judy Gold
Ed Birch as Millek Knebel
Zora Bishop as Eva Fruchtman
Dylan Edwards as Roy Sedwell
Nathaniel Gleed as Tommy Hurwitz
Ben Lloyd-Hughes as Alan Rosenthal
Vaidotas Martinaitis as Adolf Eichmann
Nell Mooney as New York Times Journalist’s Wife
Solomon Mousley as Perry
Anna-Louise Plowman as Jane Hurwitz
Ian Porter as New York Times Journalist
Justin Salinger as David Arad
Samuel West as Narrator

References

^ ^a ^b The Eichmann Show - BBC Two
^ "Weinstein Acquires 'The Eichmann Show'; 'Childhood Of A Leader' Adds Cast; More Berlin Briefs". Retrieved 3 February 2015.
^ The Eichmann Show (2015) - Company credits - IMDb
^ "The Eichmann Show: New BBC film tells story behind trial's broadcast". Haaretz.com. Amos Schocken. 21 January 2015. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015. [G]roundbreaking American film producer Milton Fruchtman... was given the job of televising the so-called "Trial of the Century" in Jerusalem in 1961. The broadcasts lasted for over four months and were shown in 56 countries. ... [The] televised trial "became the world's first ever documentary series, and in the process changed the way people saw the Second World War," Laurence Bowen, the films's producer, told BBC. "It was the first time many people had ever heard the story of the Holocaust from the mouths of the victims. So it had a huge impact historically, but it also was a huge event in terms of television." ... [Fruchtmann] said, "In the end every German television station showed segments of the trial each evening. Children who had not learned about the Nazis in school heard about the war for the first time."

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[The_Eichmann_Show_-_BBC_Two-1] The Eichmann Show - BBC Two

[DeadlineCast-2] "Weinstein Acquires 'The Eichmann Show'; 'Childhood Of A Leader' Adds Cast; More Berlin Briefs". Retrieved 3 February 2015.

[3] The Eichmann Show (2015) - Company credits - IMDb

[eichmann-tv-4] "The Eichmann Show: New BBC film tells story behind trial's broadcast". Haaretz.com. Amos Schocken. 21 January 2015. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015. [G]roundbreaking American film producer Milton Fruchtman... was given the job of televising the so-called "Trial of the Century" in Jerusalem in 1961. The broadcasts lasted for over four months and were shown in 56 countries. ... [The] televised trial "became the world's first ever documentary series, and in the process changed the way people saw the Second World War," Laurence Bowen, the films's producer, told BBC. "It was the first time many people had ever heard the story of the Holocaust from the mouths of the victims. So it had a huge impact historically, but it also was a huge event in terms of television." ... [Fruchtmann] said, "In the end every German television station showed segments of the trial each evening. Children who had not learned about the Nazis in school heard about the war for the first time."

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