The Eichmann Show

thumb|right|Leo Hurwitz: How can you just sit there? How can you not turn away? Not even flinch?... Where are you?... The Eichmann Show is a 2015 BBC television drama film. Set in Israel in 1961, after the events of former SS officer Adolf Eichmann's capture and arrest, it focuses on the true story of how American TV producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz came to broadcast the Eichmann trial. Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. Written by Simon Block. The Nazi Trial of the Century. Leo Hurwitz Gentlemen, I don't believe in monsters. But I do believe that men are responsible for monstrous deeds. What transformed this ordinary man into someone who was capable of sending hundreds and thousands of children to their death while going home every evening and kissing his own children goodnight? Now we have three days to become a team. To act, to act, to act, as one. Those cameras must now become extensions of your own eyes so that you can become extensions of mine. All right, gentlemen, rehearsal is over. [speaking to a camera man, intensely looking at a close-up of Eichmann's expressionless face on a screen] Get close on his eyes. Get close on his eyes. [watching and listening to Rivka Yoselewska's testimony on screen, looks at Eichmann, who sits unmoved] How can you sit there day after day and listen to this? [looking at Eichmann's unmoved reaction to the horrific archive footage of the concentration camps] How can you just sit there? How can you not turn away? Not even flinch?... Where are you?... [throws something at the screen in furious emotional anger] Where the fuck are you?!! Milton Fruchtman [introducing David Landor to Leo] David, we finally have our director. [introducing Leo to the team] These gentlemen are the crème de la crème of the Israeli film industry. [to Leo] Without me they wouldn't be within a million miles of this trial, and without you they wouldn't have a tenth of the audience that they have. Only in proportion as publicity has place can any of the checks applicable to judicial justice operate. Where there is no publicity, there is no justice... Publicity is the very soul of justice... It keeps the judge himself while trying under trial. The security of securities is publicity. All right, gentlemen. This is it. Moment of truth. Others News Reporter: I'm standing in front of the building where in only a few hours time, the trial of the century will begin. Dialogue Leo Hurwitz: Jesus, we're going to need every carpenter and plasterer in Jerusalem for this. Milton Fruchtman: And we've got three days to do it in. [to his driver] Just here on the left, please. [gets into the car] Leo, get some sleep. Leo Hurwitz: I may feel well enough to get the first plane back to New York. Milton Fruchtman: See you tomorrow. Mrs. Landau: We listened all day, on the radio. When we first arrived, Mr Horowitz. Leo Hurwitz: 'Hurwitz.' Mrs. Landau: We did not speak about what had happened. But people ask us, "Who are you? What happened to you?" And so we told. And they say, "It cannot be true. You invent this. Such things are not possible." I say, "If I could make up such things, I would be in Hollywood, not running a cheap hotel in Jerusalem." But they do not believe, and so we stop speaking about what happened. Except to whisper it in our sleep. Since the trial begins, I see them listen now. On bus, in shops, in cafeteria, they listen. I go to market this morning, and a young girl asked me about my number. And they watch, yes? All over the world. Leo Hurwitz: So I'm told. Mrs. Landau: Because of you. Leo Hurwitz: Oh no, I... Mrs. Landau: Because of you. Because of you. Leo Hurwitz: Mrs. Landau, I can't. Really. Mrs. Landau: Please. Leo Hurwitz: Thank you. Cast Martin Freeman - Milton Fruchtman Anthony LaPaglia - Leo Hurwitz Rebecca Front - Mrs. Landau Andy Nywan - David Landor Nicholas Woodeson - Yaakov Jonilowicz Ben Addis - Ron Huntsman Caroline Bartleet - Judy Gold Ed Birch - Millek Knebel Zora Bishop - Eva Fruchtman Dylan Edwards - Roy Sedwell Nathaniel Gleed - Tommy Hurwitz Ben LLoyd-Hughes - Alan Rosenthal Vaidotas Martinaitis - Adolf Eichmann Nell Mooney - New York Times Journalist's Wife Solomon Mousley - Perry Anna-Louise Plowman - Jane Hurwitz Ian Porter - New York Times Journalist Justin Salinger - David Arad Samuel West - Narrator See also Operation Finale, set in 1960 about Eichmann's capture by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. External links 4163668 The Eichmann Show Category:2015 films Category:2010s British films Category:Drama films Category:Courtroom dramas Category:Films set in the 1960s