In 2018, Film Inquiry sat down with actor Ben Kingsley to discuss his weighty role as Adolf Eichmann in "Operation Finale," a film about a group of spies that capture the Nazi warlord in Argentina in 1960. Eichmann was the "architect of the Final Solution," a leader who organized and managed the mass deportation and deaths of the Jewish people in concentration camps during World War II.
Film Inquiry asks Kingsley, "How did you get into the mind of such a dark and ruthless mass murderer?" They use a chilling quote from Eichmann to demonstrate just how evil the man was; not only did he arrange the massacre of countless lives, but he enjoyed doing it, stating, "I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5 million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction."
Kingsley took a different approach to playing Eichmann,...
Film Inquiry asks Kingsley, "How did you get into the mind of such a dark and ruthless mass murderer?" They use a chilling quote from Eichmann to demonstrate just how evil the man was; not only did he arrange the massacre of countless lives, but he enjoyed doing it, stating, "I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5 million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction."
Kingsley took a different approach to playing Eichmann,...
- 2/27/2023
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
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