Adolf Eichmann: The Secret Memories

A coproduction with Israel, Czech, Hungarian, Danish, and Slovakian television, the film is based on two of Eichmann’s secret diaries, one of which he wrote when he was in prison in Israel(and never released until it became evidence in the Irving-Lipstadt trial), and the second the Sassen documents, which are 64 tapes Eichmann recorded in 1957 in Buenos Aires with Willem Sassen, a dutch Fascist journalist. Rosenthal plays off one diary against the other in the film, and attempts to understand what motivated this man(in Rosenthal’s words,”just bloody hatred and anti-Semitism”).