Un spécialiste, portrait d'un criminel moderne

Hillel Tryster, director of the Jewish Film Archive, spent hundreds of hours comparing this documentary to the original trial tapes.

(quoting from the Haaretz article) Tryster determines: "While I watched and made comparisons, it gradually became clear that the film 'The Specialist' was almost entirely a perverse fraud, ranging from radical editing to artificial dialogs that never took place." Tryster notes scenes where answers and reactions are grafted to questions which they did not follow, and even sounds such as canned laughter are added at points to change the implied mood in the courtroom.

AQUÍ EL LINK a la página con la publicación del artículo en el diario israelí HAARETZ

Sivan says that when they began work on the film, the archive offered them 68 hours from the trial. Only after searching did the production team find the rest of the materials, "which were stored in the bathroom of the Hebrew University law faculty. I personally worked for seven months cataloging all the reels we found. We saved all the materials, at our own expense, transferred them to a digital format, and even gave the original copy to the state. Spielberg's people accuse us of editing and of taking things out of context. It's strange that people who betrayed their role are raising such a claim."

"After the film was screened for the first time at the festival in Berlin, we emphasized our cinematic work, both in the press and in the book we published afterwards. All the materials we used underwent treatment. We added lighting. We touched up the picture. And still, the claim that we added external laughter to one of the scenes is a lie. The film's sound was taken from the audio tapes of the trial."

Israeli fund support for Eyal Sivan documentary sparks row (link)

Todos los ojos estaban sobre Adolf Eichmann. ¿Cómo podía un hombre haber hecho tanto mal?

El juicio

Eichmann was charged under a 1950 Israeli law enacted to punish Nazis and their collaborators. He was charged on 15 counts:

§ Charge 1: He was ultimately responsible for the murder of millions of Jews.

§ Charge 2: He placed these Jews, before they were murdered, in living conditions designed to kill them.

§ Charge 3: He caused them grave physical and mental harm.

§ Charge 4: He took actions which resulted in the sterilization of Jews and otherwise prevented childbirth.

§ Charge 5: He caused the enslavement, starvation, and deportation of millions of Jews.

§ Charge 6: He caused general persecution of Jews based on national, racial, religious and political grounds.

§ Charge 7: He spoiled Jewish property by inhuman measures involving compulsion, robbery, terrorism and violence.

§ Charge 8: That all of the above were punishable war crimes.

§ Charge 9: He deported a half-million Poles.

§ Charge 10: He deported 14,000 Slovenes.

§ Charge 11: He deported tens of thousands of gypsies.

§ Charge 12: He deported and murdered 100 Czech children from the village of Lidice.

(Adolf Eichmann con documentos falsos como Ricardo Klement en Argentina. )

En 2006 salieron documentos al aire de que la CIA sabía que Eichmann vivía en Argentina pero que no lo habían reportado a Israel, a pesar de que llevaban buscándolo por años. (Hay un artículo en el diario Haaretz).

Toda la confesión de Adolf Eichmann puede ser leída AQUÍ, publicada por LIFE.

A raiz del Jucio se harían los experimentos de la entrada anterior, sobre todo el de Milgram y más adelante el de la Cárcel de Stanford.

A pesar de las críticas, creo que el discurso del director es claro. Por una parte, que hay una alteración para decir las cosas, incluso a la hora de escoger el material. Por otro, que el diablo no es como lo pintan.