5 Facts about the 2007 film 'Eichmann' directed by Robert Young and starring Thomas Kretschmann
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EICHMANN (2007)
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5. This was the final writing credit for the playwright, screenwriter and director Snoo Wilson (aka Andrew James Wilson), who died in 2013.
4. Made for release in 2007 the film was only shown at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival that year and was shelved for most markets until the end of the decade, and then only being a straight to DVD affair.
3. Some releases of the film gave it a subtitle, making it ‘Eichmann – The Exterminator’.
2. Although it no doubt made some more from DVD sales, the film only returned a gross of $2,706 from its theatrical run, falling very short of its estimated $8 million budget.
1. An apocryphal version of events in which Eichmann is depicted as a monstrous sadist who shoots a baby and seems to have a hand in every atrocity committed by the Nazis, even Jewish critics regard the film as a wasted opportunity to explore the true banality of Eichmann’s evil, who was in reality nothing but a pen-pusher.
5. This was the final writing credit for the playwright, screenwriter and director Snoo Wilson (aka Andrew James Wilson), who died in 2013.
4. Made for release in 2007 the film was only shown at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival that year and was shelved for most markets until the end of the decade, and then only being a straight to DVD affair.
3. Some releases of the film gave it a subtitle, making it ‘Eichmann – The Exterminator’.
2. Although it no doubt made some more from DVD sales, the film only returned a gross of $2,706 from its theatrical run, falling very short of its estimated $8 million budget.
1. An apocryphal version of events in which Eichmann is depicted as a monstrous sadist who shoots a baby and seems to have a hand in every atrocity committed by the Nazis, even Jewish critics regard the film as a wasted opportunity to explore the true banality of Eichmann’s evil, who was in reality nothing but a pen-pusher.
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Before You Go...
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