UK Jewish Film Festival November 2012
Memories of the Eichmann Trial
Perlov’s compelling film is composed of layers of memory assembled from interviews with Israeli children of survivors and a few key Eichmann trial witnesses. Perlov decided to make the film, in part, as a response to Alain Resnais’ documentary Night and Fog, which did not deal explicitly with the Final Solution as a plan to exterminate European Jewry. Perlov’s method involves a direct yet sensitive interviewing approach, as he examines the lasting effects of the Eichmann trial on the witnesses, their families and other Israelis. Perlov approaches the trial as a formative event that became a memory – one that has a prominent place in Israeli society today. The scene where Perlov asks the Polish-Jewish Photographer Henryk Ross to reveal how he managed to take secret images of the Lodz Ghetto, is one that stays with you for a long time. Other interviewees include Rafi Eitan, who was directly involved in the operation to capture Eichmann. Marc Isaacs
For more information about David Perlov’s work please visit www.davidperlov.com
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