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The Specialist

The Specialist

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 31, 1999

Runtime

2h 8m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

61%

Original Title

Ein Spezialist

Production Companies

Amythos Films, Image Création, Lotus-Film, Momento!

Director

Eyal Sivan

Description

Composed exclusively of the footage recorded by Leo Hurwitz during the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, A Specialist is a courtroom drama painting the portait of a zealous bureaucrat who has immense respect for the Law and hierarchy, a police official responsible for the elimination of several million people, a modern criminal.