Eyal Sivan: The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal

director: Eyal Sivan

original title: Eyal Sivan: The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal

country: France

year: 1999

running time: 128 min.

synopsis

The Israeli-born, French-based filmmaker Eyal Sivan will hold a master class dedicated to documentary filmmaking as a means of expressing critical dialogue, political consciousness and history (re)vision in the frame of the Israeli-Palestinian relations. The master class will be preceded by the screening of The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal – a unique courtroom drama recorded during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in 1961, in Jerusalem. The film about obedience and responsibility is a portrait of an expert in problems resolving and a modern criminal.