INCLUDES POST-SCREENING Q&A with Director JAKE PALTROW and Producer RON GOLDMAN
The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the mass murder of the Jews during World War II, is revisited in a gripping and surprising new vision from American filmmaker Jake Paltrow (The Good Night). This Hebrew-language drama, based on true accounts, tells its story from the intertwined perspectives of three largely unrelated figures: Eichmann; a Jewish Moroccan prison guard; an Israeli police investigator for the prosecution and a Holocaust survivor; and a 13-year-old Jewish Libyan immigrant.
Largely shot on 16mm film, Paltrow's vividly textured work uses these disparate points of view to paint an image of the diasporic Jewish people and, in its unorthodox narrative approach, reminds us that the same histories are experienced differently by people all over the world, and we are connected through shared traumatic pasts.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Jake Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California in 1975. His narrative fiction films are Young Ones and The Good Night. He co-directed the documentary De Palma with Noah Baumbach. He has directed several television shows including Boardwalk Empire and Halt and Catch Fire. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for The First Ones (a film commissioned by the New York Times Magazine). His films have screened at Sundance, Venice, New York, Karlovy Vary, and several other international film festivals.
Ron Goldman is an entrepreneur, healthcare investor, and adjunct professor at NYU. June Zero, his first venture into the film industry, is a movie that features a portrayal of his now 98 year old father's real-life story as a Holocaust survivor and police investigator during the Eichmann trial.