OPERATION FINALE -- Official Trailer – MGM
COMPILATION AND COMMENTARY
BY LUCY WARNER
JUNE 12, 2018


https://operationfinalefilm.com/
OPERATION FINALE | Official Trailer | MGM
BASED ON THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY

BASED ON THE STORY OF ADOLF EICHMANN THE CREATOR OF HITLER’S “FINAL SOLUTION.”
THIS FALL – 6/12/2018

THE MOVIE:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5208252/
Operation Finale (2018)
PG-13 | Biography, Drama, History | 14 September 2018 (USA)
Ben Kingsley ... Adolf Eichmann
Oscar Isaac ... Peter Malkin
Directed by
Chris Weitz Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Matthew Orton
Music by -- Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography by -- Javier Aguirresarobe


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2785-2005Mar2.html?noredirect=on
Israeli Agent Peter Malkin Dies; Captured Nazi Fugitive
By Adam Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 3, 2005; Page B05

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PETER Z MALKIN, LIFE HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Peter Z. Malkin, 77, the Jewish guerrilla and Israeli intelligence agent who captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann on a street in Buenos Aires, died March 1 in New York. No cause of death was disclosed.

Mr. Malkin was born in Poland, raised in the British mandate of Palestine and by age 12 had been recruited to fight with the Haganah, the Jewish underground forces. He became an explosives specialist and was known for donning all manner of disguises. For years, he posed as an itinerant painter. He also developed expertise in martial arts.

In time, he served as chief of operations for the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad.

His most famous exploit was the snatching of Eichmann on May 11, 1960. Eichmann, a key architect of the Nazi Holocaust who coined the term "Final Solution," had fled to Argentina in the early 1950s. He used a pseudonym, lived in a working-class suburb of Buenos Aires and worked quietly at a Mercedes-Benz plant.

After receiving a tip, the Mossad began sending investigators to Argentina. Some, Mr. Malkin said, made "gaffes almost beyond invention." One overturned a jeep in the quiet neighborhood; another, hoping to talk to Eichmann and his family, used a cover story about being a businessman seeking to build a factory nearby.

Appalled, Mr. Malkin told his bosses that any successful operation would have to involve just himself and maybe two or three others as backup. Asked by his superior how he might manage to subdue Eichmann, who would likely put up a struggle, Mr. Malkin placed his boss in a painful chokehold.

Shortly thereafter, Mr. Malkin left for Argentina with an elite commando team and spent months planning for all contingencies, including how to hold Eichmann in a safe house before spiriting him to Israel. To maintain his cover, he drew stained-glass windows in churches.

"I spent a lot of time in churches," he told the New York Times. "If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church in a hundred years no one would ask."

On the appointed day, he passed Eichmann in the street and, as planned, said to the approaching man the only words he knew in Spanish, "Un momentito, señor." They struggled, and Mr. Malkin overpowered Eichmann, dragging him into a waiting car.

In his memoir, "Eichmann in My Hands" (1990), Mr. Malkin described being surprised at how undistinguished and rather bony Eichmann looked. He was expecting a "monster."

He said his interrogations of Eichmann were freakishly revealing, as when he confronted Eichmann about the death of Mr. Malkin's nephew in Poland: "My sister's boy, my favorite playmate, he was just your son's age. Also blond and blue-eyed, just like your son. And you killed him."

Mr. Malkin wrote: "Genuinely perplexed by the observation, he actually waited a moment to see if I would clarify it. 'Yes,' he said finally, 'but he was Jewish, wasn't he?' "

A diplomatic uproar followed Eichmann's removal from Argentina, but he was tried and hanged in Israel in 1962.

Mr. Malkin was born Zvi Malchin. He was 4 when his family, having suffered anti-Semitic indignities for years, decided to leave Poland for Palestine in 1933. Because of a shortage of exit visas, Mr. Malkin's 23-year-old sister stayed behind. She perished in the Holocaust, along with other relatives.

In the comparative security of Palestine, Mr. Malkin described himself as growing "cocky and apparently fearless" as a young man.

He wrote: "Before long, I attached myself to a group, roaming the winding passageways every day after school, scaling ancient walls and exploring abandoned basements and storerooms, playing pirates and cowboys and soccer on cobblestoned streets beneath a thick canopy of hung laundry. These guys liked to regard themselves as tough, and, though younger and smaller, I was determined to keep up with them."

Petty thievery was part of their game, and Mr. Malkin found he had a "real talent" for it. A teacher in his school recruited him in 1939 to the Haganah, which was then fighting the Arabs and the British. In time, he began pilfering ammunition from police stations. On one occasion, he covered his face in burnt cork, climbed a ladder to a second-story storeroom and picked the lock that stood between him and an arms cache. In his escape, he peeled a layer of skin off his hands on the rope.

After high school graduation in 1947, he undertook explosives training with a motley crew of young men with strange quirks. One he described as impervious to all physical pain but "would never fail to get upset about one thing: cooked carrots."

Mr. Malkin considered a career in engineering but found his reputation for safecracking preceded him at the Mossad, which he joined in 1950. As the new country of Israel built embassies abroad, Mr. Malkin instructed diplomatic staff how to detect letter bombs.

He worked on antiterrorism missions, helped capture spies and retired from the Mossad in 1976. After settling in New York, he wrote, painted and occasionally helped out a friend, Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, on investigations. Few other outlets were available to him.

"I found myself having to explain away to prospective employers a twenty-seven year gap in my résumé," he wrote.

His memoir was turned into a television film, "The Man Who Captured Eichmann" (1996), and aired on the TNT cable network. Arliss Howard played Mr. Malkin, and Robert Duvall portrayed Eichmann.

Survivors include his wife, Roni, and three children.