The Man Who Captured Eichmann

The Man Who Captured Eichmann is a television film based on the novel Eichmann in My Hands by Peter Zvi Malkin and Harry Stein, 1996 was directed by William A. Graham.

Action

The Israeli secret service Mossad tracked down in May 1960 Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. The two Jewish specialists Peter Zvi Malkin and Isser Harel now devise a plan to capture Eichmann, to create out of the country, and to put him in Israel for his crimes in the Holocaust in court.

On 11 May 1960 the Mossad manage the coup - Eichmann can be arrested. In hiding, a few days before the abduction to Israel, Eichmann revealed to the investigators.

The film ends with the kidnapping of Eichmann to Israel in an El Al plane.

Background information

Filmed on location in Argentina ( including the original hiding place, and the original house where Eichmann lived before his arrest ), the film reconstructs the arrest and detention in an Argentinean house.

The film is considered one of the independent films; Robert Duvall also supervised the production as Executive Producer.

This and That

  • Michael Tucci is father of Stanley Tucci, who embodied in the Wannsee Conference of 2001 Adolf Eichmann.

Awards

  • 2 Emmy nominations Best Editing
  • Best Actor
  • Best Actor
  • Best Casting
1996 in film William A. Graham (director) Screenplay Lionel Chetwynd Peter Malkin Film score Laurence Rosenthal War crime Emmy Award
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