Operation Eichmann (1961)
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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… More 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. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
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Cast
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Werner Klemperer
as Adolf Eichmann
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Ruta Lee
as Anna Kemp
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Donald Buka
as David
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Barbara Turner
as Sara
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John Banner
as Rudolf Hoess
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Hanna Landy
as Frau Hess
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Lester Fletcher
as Kurt Hessner
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Steve Gravers
as Jacob
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Jimmie Baird
as David as a Boy
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Norbert Schiller
as Uri Goldmann
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Oscar Beregi Sr.
as Kuwait Chief of Police
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Theo Marcuse
as Felsner
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Otto Reichow
as Rostich
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Robert Christopher
as Ben Pilot
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Eric Braeden
as Klaus
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Luis Van Rooten
as Heinrich Himmler
- Robert H. Harris
- Austin Green
- Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.