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The film stars oscar isaac who also produced, ben kingsley, lior raz, melanie laurent, nick kroll, and haley lu richardson, and follows the efforts of israeli mossad officers to capture former ss officer adolf eichmann in 1960. Shot on location in austria, germany, italy, argentina, england and israel, the film uses a. Otto adolf eichmann 19 march 1906 in solingen 31 may 1962 in ramla was a german ss officer he had the rank of ss obersturmbannfuhrer, comparable with lieutenant colonel. Apr 12, 2015 after having read several books on the hunt for eichmann it was rewarding to be able to have not only a visual representation of the houses, streets, cars etc that were involved but, more importantly, to put faces to the names of the main characters. Hunt for adolf eichmann, the dvd direct cinema limited. Check out this biography to know more about his life and littleknown facts about him. He repeatedly devised innovative solutions to overcome obstacles. Adolf eichmann, the evil architect of the holocaust in ww2. Records of the central intelligence agency records of the directorate of operations by robert wolfe, retired archivist and historian national archives and records administration eichmanns file divulges little about the man and his career in nazi germany not long since derived from captured german records. The drama is about the hunt and capture of the nazi war criminal, adolf eichmann, in argentina in the. He drew up the idea of deportation of jews into ghettos, and went about concentrating jews in isolated areas with murderous efficiency. The escape of adolf eichmann history learning site. The film stars robert duvall, who produced the film, plus jeffrey tambor and arliss howard.