4 real historical locations · Argentina, Israel
The true story of the 1960 Mossad operation to capture Adolf Eichmann — the SS officer who coordinated the logistics of the Holocaust — hiding in Buenos Aires under a false identity. A thriller about justice, memory, and the long reach of history.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Argentina, Israel.
Mossad agents capture Adolf Eichmann in a Buenos Aires suburb in May 1960 — bringing the architect of the Holocaust's logistics to trial in Israel fifteen ye...
Adolf Eichmann, who coordinated the logistics of the Final Solution, fled to Argentina in 1950 as 'Ricardo Klement'. On 11 May 1960 Mossad agents seized him in San Fernando. He was secretly transported to Israel, trie...
View location →Adolf Eichmann, living as Ricardo Klement in a working-class suburb, is seized by Mossad agents outside his house on Garibaldi Street on 11 May 1960 — one of...
Eichmann had been identified in Argentina by Nazi hunter Lothar Hermann and his daughter. The Mossad team led by Peter Malkin confirmed his identity over weeks of surveillance before the capture.
View location →Eichmann is held in a Mossad safe house for nine days while his captors wait for a flight to Israel. Agent Peter Malkin draws Eichmann into conversation — se...
The safe house interrogation was real. Peter Malkin later wrote that Eichmann was chilling in his ordinariness — an echo of Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' at the subsequent Jerusalem trial.
View location →Eichmann stands trial in Jerusalem before judges who survived the Holocaust. His execution on 31 May 1962 was the only civil execution in Israeli history — t...
The Eichmann trial (April–December 1961) was televised worldwide and brought survivor testimony to a global audience for the first time. Hannah Arendt's reporting coined the phrase 'banality of evil'.
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