The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)

Directed by

Peter Collinson

Genre

drama, thriller, tv movie

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Israeli intelligence agents track down a former Nazi officer living in Argentina and plan his secret capture. The film shows the careful preparation and risky extraction required to bring him to justice in Israel.

tensehistoricalcalculatedseriousproceduralrestrainedsuspensefulmatter-of-fact

What happens

The House on Garibaldi Street is a 1979 American television film based on the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Isser Harel. It was directed by Peter Collinson and starred Topol and Martin Balsam. The story is about the Mossad operation that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 and returned him to Israel for trial. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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