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    <em>Operation Finale </em>Grapples With the Banality of Evil

    Chris Weitz’s new film stars Oscar Isaac as one of the agents who captured the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann (played by Ben Kingsley) and transported him to stand trial in Israel.
    by David Sims Aug 29, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: MGM

    The story of Adolf Eichmann’s capture by Mossad agents in 1960 is not an inherently dramatic one. Eichmann, an architect of the Holocaust and one of the highest-ranking members of the Nazi regime to survive World War II, lived in Argentina for many years in secret. His apprehension led to a widely viewed trial in Israel, which gave many of the victims of his crimes the chance to testify to their experiences. But , Chris Weitz’s new film dramatizing the extraction of Eichmann, is largely unconcerned with those legal proceedings. It’s focused primarily on the agents who

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