“アウシュヴィッツの 真実を伝えるために──。”
1961年、ホロコーストに関与し、数多くのユダヤ人を強制収容所に送り込んだ元ナチス親衛隊将校アドルフ・アイヒマンの裁判が行われることになった。テレビプロデューサーのミルトン・フルックマンと、撮影監督レオ・フルヴィッツはこのニュースに関心を持つ。彼らは裁判の模様を放映しようと意気込み……。＜ナチス・ドイツの戦犯アドルフ・アイヒマンの裁判を通して世界中にホロコーストの実態を知らしめようと奮闘した、テレビマンたちの姿に迫る感動の人間ドラマ。実在の人物をベースに、若手プロデューサーと撮影監督がさまざまな困難を乗り越えて信念を貫く様子を描写する。テレビドラマ「SHERLOCK／シャーロック」シリーズのワトソン役などで知られるマーティン・フリーマンが主演。ナチスの大罪とホロコーストの真実を暴く男たちの気概に圧倒される。＞
脚本: Simon Block
音楽: Laura Rossi
制作: Laurence Bowen
撮影監督: Carlos Catalán
制作会社: Feelgood Fiction / Baltic Film Services / Vistaar Religare Film Fund / BBC
> Behind story of a historical event's TV documentation. This BBC film was based on the actual event that took place in the early 60s, Jerusalem. About televising the trial from a courtroom, which was the first ever documentary series to broadcast. One of a top Nazi officer, Adolf Eichmann, who fled during the end of world war two and settled down in the South America, but brought back with the help of Mossad to Israel to face the war crime charges. The movie won't demonstrate all those in the picture, but it begins with the television production house preparing to shoot the important television event in the history. So the show begins, but a boring first half and the next half is where all the interesting stuffs happen. In my prediction this movie with the powerful contents would have easily beaten the 'The Imitation Game', if it was produced grandly and commercialised a bit of narration for the worldwide market. The real video clips of the trial were merged into the movie and that gave a strong effect which allows to realise how those actual occurrences has taken place. Actually, there are some uncensored cuts, which were shocking and disturbing. So pretty much like a semi-documentary, but due to the majority of movie clips that shot with actors and in the sets, it feels like a TV movie as it should be. > "While he watches the footage, we'll be watching him. > Only then will we see the real Eichmann." The performances were ordinary, because the screenplay preferred the main event to display, not the characters and their lifestyle. That makes it is not a biographical picture, though both the lead men were pretty impressive. We had seen many world war 2 and related to it movies, but this one was a different. Because of the story was set 15 years after the end of war. Simple movie, no twists, no developments, but reveals the facts from a different dimension. Because of this show, people around the world and filmmakers understood the cruelty of the Nazi prison camp. The movies those came afterwards about this war were inspired by the events that discussed in the courtroom. So if you are planning for this, expect it to be as what the title says, not a bit more or less. 8/10
