After fleeing to Argentina, the architect of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann, is kidnapped by the Israeli Mossad and brought to Israel to stand trial for his harrowing crimes against the Jewish People. Accused of murdering millions, Eichmann adopts the usual Nazi line of defence and denies everything. In order to tear through his lies, Israeli Attorney General Gideon Hausner must locate a key piece of evidence that would prove Eichmann’s guilt: a series of audio interviews. Part courtroom drama, part true crime, part espionage thriller, this film depicts the hunt for the mysterious tapes of a yearlong interview session between Eichmann, and ex-SS officer Willem Sassen, conducted while in hiding in Argentina. Tapes that Attorney General Hausner urgently wanted to have as the ultimate smoking gun in the first trial about the Holocaust. But the tapes were always kept out of Hausner’s reach, because powerful forces had no interest in the content being made public. This multilayered conspiracy and the new revelations about why the tapes stayed in the shadows are astonishing on their own. And, when you hear Eichmann speak, with glee, joyfulness, and ideological fire, about ‛the best time of his life’ (administrating the Holocaust), you understand why the New York Times calls this documentary ‛chilling’.
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