The Specialist
General Information
- Original Title
- Un spécialiste, portrait d'un criminel moderne
- Author/Creator
- Sivan, Eyal, director.
- Language
- Hebrew.
- Subtitles
- English
- Published
- Israel : Sivan, Eyal, 1999.
- Physical Description
- DVD-ROM (128 min.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_00002333
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- A German worker in the upper echelons of the Nazi party, Adolf Eichmann was in charge of the expulsion of Jews, Slovenians, and Gypsies from the Reich between 1938 and 1941, and then of their deportation from Europe to the death camps. In 1960, he was captured by the Israeli secret service in Argentina. His subsequent trial in Jerusalem was one of the first public events recorded on video. Filmmakers Rony Brauman and Eyal Sivan have assembled excerpts of this footage to create a tightly edited and compelling documentary about a bureaucrat who has fulfilled his duties during a time of war. Eichmann steadfastly insists that his part in the Holocaust was neither active or evil: he was only following orders. Based on Hannah Arendt's famous account of the trial, "The Specialist: Portrait of a Modern Criminal" offers profound insight into how the Holocaust was facilitated by bureaucracy and a subservient mindset that allowed people like Eichmann to claim ignorance and shuffle responsibility for atrocious crimes around like so many carbon-copy forms.
Subjects
- Genre
- Documentary films
Bibliographic Information
- Title Translation
- The Specialist
- Note
- Duration: 02:08:00
Holdings
| Item Type | Current Location | Call Number | Status | Shelving Location | Public Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD-ROM | OSA Film Library | FL Record 0600 | Available | - | - |
| Digital film | OSA Film Library | FL Record 0600 (HU_OSA_00002333.mp4) | Available | Access Copy, MP4 format |