Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responibl...
Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responible for the deaths of million of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer.
In 1961 former Nazi Adolf Eichmann is captured by Jewish agents and put on trial. American television producer Milton Fruchtman fervently believes that the trial with its witness accounts of Nazi atrocities should be televised to show the world the evils of the Holocaust and to combat any resurgence of Nazism and join forces with black-listed director Leo Hurwitz. Despite death threats, reluctance to cooperate from several networks and even resistance from the Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion, who fear a 'show trial', the pair perist and move their cameras into the court-room. Edited daily and shown in some three dozen countries the 'Eichmann Show' becomes the firt ever global television documentary.
