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Operation finale1/4/2023 ![]() ![]() #Operation finale trial#After a trial lasting eight months, during which 99 Holocaust survivors gave evidence, Eichmann was sentenced to death and hanged on – the only time in Israel's history that the death penalty has been enacted. In depicting the capture of infamous Nazi Adolf Eichmann, Chris Weitz‘s Operation Finale promises a complex battle between Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley (read our interview with Kingsley here), the kind of mental tug of war that will leave viewers shaken. In 1960, Israeli spies undertake a daring mission to capture notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and bring him to justice. Eichmann was charged with 15 counts of crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, war crimes and membership of a hostile organisation. After the war he disappeared, but his crimes made him a wanted man. David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, announced the capture to the Israeli parliament and a stunned world. Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann is the first exhibition in the United States to fully document the pursuit, capture, extradition. He was passed off as a sick airline employee, dressed in an El Al uniform and heavily sedated in a first class seat. An El Al plane brought an official Israeli delegation to Buenos Aires as a cover for taking the high-value target back. ![]() There, a Holocaust survivor whose daughter was dating Eichmann's son became suspicious about the identity of the boy's father, and Israeli intelligence was alerted.Eichmann, who was living in Buenos Aires was bundled into a car on his way home from work by a team of Mossad agents. After the war he was captured by Allied forces but escaped and fled to Argentina. Operation Finale Film Review: Strong Ensemble Infuses Passion Into Conventional Retelling of Adolf Eichmanns Capture. Eichmann was in charge of implementing Hitler's Final Solution for the Jewish people, in which six million people died. In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina. The film stars Oscar Isaac (who also produced), Ben Kingsley, Lior Raz, Mlanie Laurent, Nick Kroll, and Haley Lu Richardson, and follows the efforts of Israeli Mossad officers to capture former SS officer Adolf Eichmann in 1960. ![]() Ten days later, drugged and dressed as a crew member of Israeli flag carrier El Al, he was smuggled to Israel by Mossad agents and put on trial. Operation Finale is a 2018 American historical drama film directed by Chris Weitz from a screenplay by Matthew Orton. On May 11, 1960, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was nabbed by a team of Israeli spies after years on the run in Argentina, ending a long manhunt. ![]()
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