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The Specialist The Specialist is a courtroom drama painting the portrait of a zealous bureaucrat who has immense respect for the Law and hierarchy, a police official responsible of the elimination of several million people, a modern criminal. The prosecution describes the accused as a blood-thirsty pervert, the Machiavellian liar and a serial-killer yet he appears as a quiet family man, both comic and terrifying in his banality. Although he doesn't deny the role he played in the criminal enterprise that he belonged to, he shelters behind the instructions of his superiors, his vow of allegiance and the obligation of obey orders. He considers that his role as a mere agent, a purely administrative and logistic one, devoid of all passion, shelters him from the justice of men, even through it may not exempt him from all responsibility. The Specialist is composed exclusively of the previously unseen 350 hours of footage recorded during the dramatic trial of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, in Jerusalem in 1961. This film about obedience and responsibility portrays a specialist of problems solving, a modern criminal. by the same director: Itgaber - He Will Overcome, Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork (please contact Cat & Docs), Route 181 - Fragments of A Journey in Palestine-Israel (with Michel Khleifi), The Specialist, for additional films, please contact us |
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