The House On Garabaldi Street

Overview

Based on a true story, this made-for-TV spy movie chronicles the 1960 capture of a Nazi in South America. When Israeli agents find out that Nazi Adolph Eichmann survived the war and is living in Argentina, they hatch a plan to kidnap him and bring him to trial for his crimes. Martin Balsam portrays Isser Harel, who wrote the book that served as the basis for this film.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/24/2012
UPC:	0883904267997
Original Release:	1979
Source:	MGM
Presentation:	[Full Frame]
Sound:	[monaural]
Language:	English
Time:	1:41:00
Sales rank:	45,595

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Martin Balsam	Isser Harel
Topol	Michael
Nick Mancuso	Ari
Alfred Burke	Adolf Eichmann
Charles Gray	Actor
Leo McKern	Actor
Janet Suzman	Actor
Edward Judd	Actor
Charles Bernstein	Composer

Technical Credits

Steve Shagan

Peter Collinson	Director
Mort Abrahams	Producer
Steve Shagan	Executive Producer,Screenwriter
Charles Bloch	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

This 1979 television production recounts events leading to the capture of Adolf Eichmann at a house on Garibaldi Street in the San Fernando district of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 11, 1960. Because Eichmann had supervised Nazi extermination of six million Jews during World War II, he was the chief target of Israeli Nazi hunters after the war. The film depicts the secret operation to track down and kidnap Eichmann after Israel's Central Institute for Intelligence and Security, known as Mossad, receives a tip claiming that the Nazi criminal is living in Buenos Aires under the assumed name of Ricardo Klement. Although the film received mixed reviews, its documentary approach enhances realism and suspense. The camera follows Mossad chief Isser Harel (Martin Balsam) and his agents on their trip from Israel to Argentina and ultimately to the very residence of Eichmann (Alfred Burke) after his son Nicholaus (Simon Shepherd), who sometimes openly uses the Eichmann family name, attracts the attention of the agents. The cast is strong, pairing veteran American and British actors, and the South American setting appears authentic even though director Peter Collinson filmed the production mainly in Spain. Both the film and the work on which scriptwriter Steve Shagan based it -- Harel's 1975 book of the same name (published in more than 20 languages and selling more than a million copies) -- generated renewed interest in the last decade of the 20th century, after Harel declared that famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal lied when he said he played a key role in the capture of Eichmann.

All Movie Guide - Mike Cummings