“This is an unusual defendant…” Madman Films in Australia has posted a new trailer for the documentary film titled The Eichmann Trial, a look back at this famous trial in 1961. This doc already premiered back in 2023, playing at the Miami Jewish Film Festival and a few other fests. It was released in the US to watch on VOD but is only now just getting released in Australia – we missed it then but it seems like a fascinating trip back into the past. In 1961, history was on trial… in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. With rarely-seen archival footage, The Eichmann Trial shows just what happened at this major event in history at a trial held in Jerusalem. The first effort in a decades-long attempt to combat Holocaust denial – with a chilling look at how Eichmann tried to outsmart prosecutors. Told entirely through archival footage of the trial itself and attending news coverage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials in history, and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education. // Continue Reading ›
