The Eichmann Show Page #2

There has to be footage, and there will be.

C'mon, let's meet your cameramen.

- My cameramen?

- Here we go.

Milton, I pick my own team.

Jesus, it's a theatre.

Ah.

Mr Hurwitz is here,

so I'll bring him over.

Leo.

I'd like to introduce you

to your camera operators.

This is Rolf, Yaakov, Millek and Fred.

On behalf of my colleagues

I'd like to welcome you to our country.

It's a great honour for

us to work with the

distinguished director

of such documentaries

as Native Land and the antifascist

masterpiece Strange Victory.

It's a pleasure to meet you gentlemen...

It's shameful that an artist

of your stature and humanity

should be blacklisted by the

House Un-American Activities Committee

It's frightening what these guys know.

They even knew that

I worked with Rita Hayworth.

These gentlemen are the crme

de la crme of the Israeli film industry

Yeah, well they're going to need to be.

- Milton, your taxi's here.

- Thank you. Excuse me.

It's a pleasure to meet you, gentlemen.

You'll like the Israeli press attach.

He's like the sphinx, only Jewish.

Thanks, Judy.

- We don't have time for PR, Milton.

- This isn't PR.

We have a contract with

the Israeli government.

They're concerned the judges

won't ever give us permission to film.

And what if they don't?

If they don't, Capital

Cities lose the half

million dollars they've

spent on the production

the thirty-seven countries

we promised the footage to

will never see the Eichmann trial

and, well, our names

become the punchline

to an industry joke

told for decades to come.

Why are we meeting the Israeli press

secretary at an Arab cafe?

Because the coffee is out of this world.

The newspapers describe this

as the trial of the century

but my superiors see it as

something far more important.

They see this trial as an opportunity

for a Jewish Nuremberg.

Survivors of the genocide very

often held in low regard here in Israel

as if they were complicit

in the crimes that they endured.

Israel and the world needs

to hear what happened to them

from the mouths of the survivors.

So we will broadcast it

live on Israeli radio

but it is essential that

the world must also see

it in their homes on their

television screens.

You said you could film this trial.

So the judges must give us their approval.

Your superiors couldn't quietly

insist the judges give it?

Unlike Nazi Germany,

Israel does not undermine

or compromise the

independence of its judiciary.

We've done all we can

to address the judges' concerns.

- Clearly not.

- Well, we're working on it.

In the meantime you leave us

in a very difficult position.

The decision to televise

was a very great gamble.

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