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Title The German Neighbor.

Publication Info. Pragda, 2017.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Performer Antonella Saldicco
Event Originally produced by Pragda in 2017.
Summary Integrating impressive archive material, THE GERMAN NEIGHBOR follows the steps of Adolf Eichmann's unusual life in Argentina and his remarkable defense at the trial in Jerusalem. Roberto Klement was a gentle and respectful neighbor in Buenos Aires. But Klement was actually Adolf Eichmann, the executioner of "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question" in WWII. In 1960, Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped and taken to Jerusalem for the Nuremberg trial. Fifty years later, Renate Liebeskind, a young German translator living in Argentina, is hired to translate that trial into Spanish. Eichmann's vulnerable image and matter of fact testimony puzzle Renate. Entangled by certainty and ambiguity, she starts looking for answers in conversations with historians, reporters, philosophers, and family members. Not completely satisfied, she embarks on a journey that follows the one traveled by Eichmann after his arrival in Argentina. The film combines the exploration of Eichmann's daily life during his exile in Argentina with images of the trial in which he was sentenced to death in 1961.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject History, Modern.
German language.
Latin America.
Criminal law.
History.
Documentary films.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Added Author Liji, Martin, film director.
Cervio, Rosario, film director.
Saldicco, Antonella, actor.
Pragda (Firm), Distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
Music No. 5547891 Kanopy