Serial Number: 20851
Title: Man in the Glass Booth, The (1975)
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Country of Origin: US
Genre: Private Gallery - The 70's
Subject: Judaica
Size: 8x10 MINI LOBBY CARD
Condition: EX/NM
Card Number: 4
Price: $NOT FOR SALE
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| Actors/Actresses: Maximilian Schell |
| Notes: Director: Arthur Hiller; As the title would suggest, the film is inspired by the famous kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect of the Holocaust. However, it is a fictitious and altogether different story. It is about a rich industrialist living in outrageous luxury in present day Manhattan. His name is Arthur Goldman. But is he an ex-Nazi officer pretending to be a Jew in order to escape prosecution, or is he a Jewish concentration camp survivor that pretends to be an ex-Nazi in order to be put on a showcase trial where he hopes to expunge the demons that torment him ever since the war? Israeli secret agents in the process of drugging Maximillian Schell in preparation of kidnapping him to stand trial in Israel. |
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