Why was Avner being persecuted by his fellow Jews? He was interrogating Eichmann... why would that be something Jews would be angry at?
I'm confused... but then again I've never understood mass human behaviour.
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I agree. I was going to post the same question myself
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
i think because most wanted Eichmann to be hanged right away, without a fair trial while Avner was in favour of a fair trial and part of that trial.
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That is what I believed they were showing. There was a discussion round the dinner table - some people believed in due process of law - a fair trial. Others wanted instant justice, and feared that a trial may - somehow- give Eichman a platform or a chance to justify his actions. The lynch mob / justifyably angry crowd (delete as youbelieve or see fit) thought that Avner and the state represented a way of doing things that Eichman and his like had not granted his victims, so why should he benefit.
Me? I disagreed with the mob, thought they lowered themselves to the level of the Nazis, but then I didn't have 60 realatives or 6 million co-believers killed...
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I too wonder about this. The real point here is was there such a protest at the time? If not shame on the producers. They really played lose with this film and it deserves it's dismal IMDB rating (5.9)
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