Adolph Eichmann, the architect of the Adolph Hitler’s “Final Solution,” escaped World War II unscathed. The upcoming historical thriller Operation Finale tells the story of how, almost twenty years later, he was finally brought to justice.
The first Operation Finale trailer sees Ben Kingsley add to his roster of historic performances as the fugitive Nazi and Oscar Isaac as the of legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin who caught up with him.
Operation Finale was helmed by Chris Weitz, who directed About a Boy and The Twilight Saga: New Moon and co-wrote Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The film was written by Matthew Orton.
Coming in September from MGM, it’s based on the true story of Malkin’s 1960 covert mission to infiltrate the last of the Third Reich’s camps in Argentina to capture the former Nazi officer.
The trailer establishes the trail for the military fugitive went cold in 1946, but reports show he reappeared in Buenos Aires. Malkin is warned, that if he fails, Eichmann “escapes justice, perhaps forever. I beg you do not fail.”
You can watch the trailer here:
Eichmann, who masterminded the transportation of the Holocaust, is about as far from the Gandhi title role Kingsley that made him a household name. “You have no interest in what I have to say, unless it confirms what you think you already know. My job was simple,” his Eichmann says in the trailer. “Save the country I loved from being destroyed.”
The film also stars Melanie Laurent, Haley Lu Richardson, Joe Alwyn, Michael Aronov, Ohad Knoller, Greg Hill, Torben Liebrecht, Nick Kroll and Lior Raz.
Operation Finale opens in cinemas on September 14th in the US. No UK date has been announced.