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Movie
Operation Eichmann
Synopsis
Released about five weeks before the Adolf Eichmann trial began in Jerusalem on April 11, 1961, this docudrama by director R.G. Springsteen was quickly dashed together to take advantage of the trial, and it shows. Overplaying Eichmann's venality and lacking any depth in characterization, the story unfolds in several large segments. Eichmann (played by Werner Klemperer), as head of Dept. IV, B4 or "Jewish affairs/evacuation affairs, personally ordered, or watched, or supervised the extermination of Jews in Germany and the nations under its occupying forces. These years are shown in the first part of the film; the second half deals with Eichmann's escape from an American POW camp, his four years under cover in Germany, aided by an association of Nazi SS members (ODESSA), his escape in 1950 to Argentina through Italy, and his capture on May 11, 1960.
Cast
- Werner Klemperer
- Ruta Lee
- Donald Buka
- Barbara Turner
- John Banner
- Hanna Landy
- Lester Fletcher
- Steve Gravers
- Jimmy Baird
- Jimmie Baird
- Debbie Cannon
- Jackie Russo
- Paul Thierry
- Rodolfo Hoyos
- Norbert Schiller
- Luis Van Rooten
- Oscar Beregi
- Oscar Beregi Jr.
- Theodore Marcuse
- Theo Marcuse
- Otto Reichow
- Walter Linden
- Hans Hermann
- Eric Braeden
- Robert Christopher
- Carla Lucerne
- Austin Green
- Robert H. Harris
- Roy Livingston
- Alex Alexander
- Charles Duncan
- Joseph Biroc
- Anthony Lloyd
- Rudi Feld