Staring – Martin Freemand and Anthony LaPaglia
This is a docudrama about the team who televised the 1961 war crime trial of Adolf Eichmann who was responsible for the deaths of many in the holocaust in ww2. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz the director and Milton Fruchtman the producer.
It contains archive footage of the the trial and of the concentration camps and the original televised trial which included evidence from holocaust survivors and was the first time many in the world learned of the true horrors of the holocaust, which affected many of those involved in the trial and filming.
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