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* AbusiveParents: Implied with Eichmann, who physically slams his son into a wall at one point to lecture him about his behaviour.


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* KickTheDog: Eichmann brags about Mossad killing the wrong person in their hunt for him, even claiming to keep a framed newspaper article about the case. He also physically pushes his son Klaus around in one scene and claims to have witnessed the execution of Peter's sister in order to taunt him.
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* BritishNazis: Adolf Eichmann, played by the British Ben Kingsley NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.


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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Very few of the actors make any attempt to speak with anything other than their natural accents, so we get German, Israeli and Argentinian characters speaking with American and British accents.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Moshe chuckles at Eichmann's joke about how the perfect Nazi must be "as thin as Goering, as tall as Goebbels, and as blond as Hitler", only to immediately look shame-faced.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Moshe chuckles at Eichmann's joke about how the perfect Nazi must be "as "[[https://warspot-asset.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/pictures/000/046/578/source/gering_-gebbels-i-gitler-bdeb1a0dd295e709c6eee8a96412287a.jpg as thin as Goering, as tall as Goebbels, and as blond as Hitler", Hitler]]", only to immediately look shame-faced.
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* ReflexiveResponse: At the beginning of the film, the Nazi hunter Mossad agents go to a house where they suspect former Nazis are living. The residents are smart enough to hide their Nazi books and iconography, but when questioning them, one agent suddenly drops a "Heil Hitler", which makes the Nazis' ''kids'' jump to attention and repeat it back.

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* BatmanGambit: Aharoni, the Mossad interrogator, comes up with the idea of taunting Eichmann into admitting his identity by continually getting his SS identification number wrong during questioning. It works, as sheer irritation leads Eichmann to correct them and admit his true name.


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* CorrectionBait: Aharoni, the Mossad interrogator, comes up with the idea of taunting Eichmann into admitting his identity by continually getting his SS identification number wrong during questioning. It works, as sheer irritation leads Eichmann to correct them and admit his true name.
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** Graciela sees an agent stashing their supply of US dollars and steals it. Unfortunately the Nazis are on the alert for anyone using US dollars, and get tipped off when she tries to exchange them for Argentinian pesos.
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* ImproperlyParanoid: The agents consider cancelling the kidnapping when, while feigning a vehicle breakdown, a cyclist they don't recognise from their surveillance stops to ask if they need help.


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* SpannerInTheWorks:
** El Al refuse to take Eichmann back to Israel without a signed document from Eichmann saying he's going voluntarily. Given that Mossad has kidnapped him and he knows full well that any trial held in Israel would be a foregone conclusion, he's understandably reluctant to do so. The agents could forge his signature but they don't have an original to copy, so a large part of the drama is trying to break down Eichmann mentally so he'll sign.
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* BigotWithACrush: Played realistically. Klaus Eichmann becomes attracted to Sylvia Hermann, a German Jew whose father immigrated to Argentina after living through the Holocaust but [[RaisedCatholic raised her Catholic]]. Klaus even takes her to a meeting of ex-Nazi fugitives. Sylvia is horrified by the rampant anti-Semitism and abruptly leaves, is only convinced to visit Klaus one more time by her father to gather intelligence on Klaus's father Adolf Eichmann, and Klaus immediately rejects her when she admits that she's a Jew.

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* BigotWithACrush: Played realistically. Klaus Eichmann becomes attracted to Sylvia Hermann, a German Jew whose father immigrated to Argentina after living through the Holocaust but [[RaisedCatholic raised her Catholic]].Catholic. Klaus even takes her to a meeting of ex-Nazi fugitives. Sylvia is horrified by the rampant anti-Semitism and abruptly leaves, is only convinced to visit Klaus one more time by her father to gather intelligence on Klaus's father Adolf Eichmann, and Klaus immediately rejects her when she admits that she's a Jew.
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Creator/MelanieLaurent plays Hanna Elian, Peter's old girlfriend and a medical doctor who is charged with keeping Eichmann sedated on the way to the airport. Creator/NickKroll plays Rafi Eitan, leader of the Mossad team. Creator/AlexandreDesplat composed the score.

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Creator/MelanieLaurent plays Hanna Elian, Peter's old girlfriend and a medical doctor who is charged with keeping Eichmann sedated on the way to the airport. Creator/NickKroll plays Rafi Eitan, leader of the Mossad team. Creator/AlexandreDesplat Music/AlexandreDesplat composed the score.
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** The film gives the impression that Susan's date with Klaus and the intelligence that Eichmann is in Buenos Aires came shortly before the raid. In fact four full years elapsed between word of Eichmann's whereabouts and Operation Finale.

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** The film gives the impression that Susan's date with Klaus and the intelligence that Eichmann is in Buenos Aires came shortly before the raid. In fact [[CompressedAdaptation four full years elapsed elapsed]] between word of Eichmann's whereabouts and Operation Finale.
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* ArgentinaIsNaziland: Well, there certainly were quite a few fugitive Nazis there, including Eichmann and Josef Mengele.

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* ArgentinaIsNaziland: Well, there certainly were quite a few fugitive Nazis there, including Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Their ringleader even suggests that they could build a FourthReich there if they play their cards right, and attempts to recruit Eichmann to take part in this new regime.
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* BigotWithACrush: Played realistically. Klaus Eichmann becomes attracted to Sylvia Hermann, a German Jew whose father immigrated to Argentina after living through the Holocaust but raised her Catholic. Klaus even takes her to a meeting of ex-Nazi fugitives. Sylvia is horrified by the rampant anti-Semitism and abruptly leaves, is only convinced to visit Klaus one more time by her father to gather intelligence on Klaus's father Adolf Eichmann, and Klaus immediately rejects her when she admits that she's a Jew.

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* BigotWithACrush: Played realistically. Klaus Eichmann becomes attracted to Sylvia Hermann, a German Jew whose father immigrated to Argentina after living through the Holocaust but [[RaisedCatholic raised her Catholic.Catholic]]. Klaus even takes her to a meeting of ex-Nazi fugitives. Sylvia is horrified by the rampant anti-Semitism and abruptly leaves, is only convinced to visit Klaus one more time by her father to gather intelligence on Klaus's father Adolf Eichmann, and Klaus immediately rejects her when she admits that she's a Jew.
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* BigotWithACrush: Played realistically. Klaus Eichmann becomes attracted to Sylvia Hermann, a German Jew whose father immigrated to Argentina after living through the Holocaust but raised her Catholic. Klaus even takes her to a meeting of ex-Nazi fugitives. Sylvia is horrified by the rampant anti-Semitism and abruptly leaves, is only convinced to visit Klaus one more time by her father to gather intelligence on Klaus's father Adolf Eichmann, and Klaus immediately rejects her when she admits that she's a Jew.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eichmann is living with his family when the agents capture him. Peter witnesses him with his youngest son looking out at a passing train.

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** Peter was never on the plane to Israel with Eichmann. There ''was'' a problem with the flight plan, but it was a missing signature, and the controller wanted to know the flight route alternate.


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* OneWomanWail: Heard over the footage of Eichmann's trial.
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** The Argentinian police brutally torture Graciela but don't get any info out of her. After Klaus comes in, screams for them to stop, and gently tells Graciela that it will all be over if she gives the address, she does.

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** The Argentinian police brutally torture Graciela but don't get any info out of her. After Klaus comes in, screams for them to stop, and gently tells Graciela that he just wants to get his father back and it will all be over if she gives the address, she does.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The scene from ''Film/ImitationOfLife1959'' featured at the start of the movie (where Sylvia and Klaus met) is echoed/recreated when the latter confronts the former about her Jewish ethnicity.

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** Peter repeatedly mutters the phrase that he needs to say before confronting both of the Nazis he and his team arrests.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Hanna is the only woman in the team to capture Eichmann, and given a relationship with Peter Malkin. As mentioned above, the real doctor who sedated Eichmann was a man.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Doubling as a ShoutOut [[note]]because the actress in the clip, Susan Kohner, is director Chris Weitz's mother[[/note]] - the scene from ''Film/ImitationOfLife1959'' featured at the start of the movie (where Sylvia and Klaus met) is echoed/recreated when the latter confronts the former about her Jewish ethnicity.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Doubling as a ShoutOut [[note]]because the actress in the clip, Susan Kohner, is director Chris Weitz's mother[[/note]] - the The scene from ''Film/ImitationOfLife1959'' featured at the start of the movie (where Sylvia and Klaus met) is echoed/recreated when the latter confronts the former about her Jewish ethnicity.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Doubling as a ShoutOut [[note]]because the actress in the clip, Susan Kohner, is director Chris Weitz's mother[[/note]] - the scene from ''Film/ImitationOfLife1959'' featured at the start of the movie (where Sylvia and Klaus met) is echoed/recreated when the latter confronts the former about her Jewish ethnicity.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: At one point after they find out that the Argentine police are looking for them, Moshe is pacing and sucking on his cigarette so hard that Rafi tells him to take a walk because he's making everyone else nervous.

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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: At one point after they find out that the Argentine police are looking for them, Moshe Yaakov is pacing and sucking on his cigarette so hard that Rafi tells him to take a walk because he's making everyone else nervous.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Moshe chuckles at Eichmann's joke about how the perfect Nazi must be "as thin as Goering, as tall as Goebbels, and as blond as Hitler", only to immediately look shame-faced.
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* {{Flashback}}: Brief flashbacks to Eichmann's career during the war, including what appears to be [[Film/{{Conspiracy}} the Wannsee Conference]] and a scene where Eichmann witnesses a mass shooting of Jews in a Polish forest.

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* {{Flashback}}: Brief flashbacks to Eichmann's career during the war, including what appears to be [[Film/{{Conspiracy}} the Wannsee Conference]] Conference and a scene where Eichmann witnesses a mass shooting of Jews in a Polish forest.
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** The doctor in charge of sedating Eichmann was a man.
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* BatmanGambit: Aharoni, the Mossad interrogator, comes up with the idea of taunting Eichmann into admitting his identity by continually getting his SS identification number wrong during questioning. It works, as sheer irritation leads Eichmann to correct them and admit his true name.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** The film gives the impression that Susan's date with Klaus and the intelligence that Eichmann is in Buenos Aires came shortly before the raid. In fact four full years elapsed between word of Eichmann's whereabouts and Operation Finale.
** It was true that Eichmann wasn't trying that hard to lay low--his children still called themselves "Eichmann" after all--but there certainly weren't meetings of Nazis and Argentinian fascists where everybody shouted "Sieg Heil!"
** The whole sequence where the Argentinian police get a line on the Mossad team, swoop down on the safe house, and then race to the airport, is an invention for RuleOfDrama. In RealLife Eichmann's sons searched around somewhat randomly but had no real idea where their father was until they heard that an El Al flight had come and gone.


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* OperationBlank: "Operation Finale", the gutsy plan to find and kidnap the worst fugitive Nazi there was.
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Creator/MelanieLaurent plays Hanna Elian, Peter's old girlfriend and a medical doctor who is charged with keeping Eichmann sedated on the way to the airport. Creator/NickKroll plays Rafi Eitan, leader of the Mossad team.

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''Operation Finale'' is a 2018 film directed by Creator/ChrisWeitz.

It is a BasedOnATrueStory tale of the Israeli mission to kidnap Adolf Eichmann in 1960. Israeli intelligence receives word that Eichmann (Creator/BenKingsley), head of "Jewish affairs" for the SS and a principal architect of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, is hiding in Argentina under the name "Ricardo Klement", working in a factory, with his wife and children. He's even hobnobbing with Argentinian fascists that support deposed dictator Juan Peron.

Argentina has proven unwilling to hand over the Nazis hiding there, so the Israelis elect to stage a daring mission to kidnap Eichmann and bring him back to Israel for trial. Peter Malkin (Creator/OscarIsaac), who has experience in hunting down and killing fugitive Nazis, is part of the Mossad team sent to Argentina. The mission is difficult: they must find "Klement", confirm that he is Eichmann, kidnap him, then somehow get him past security at the Buenos Aires airport and on to an El Al plane. They succeed in snatching Eichmann, but a passer-by sees Malkin's face...

Creator/MelanieLaurent plays Hanna Elian, Peter's old girlfriend and a medical doctor who is charged with keeping Eichmann sedated on the way to the airport. Creator/NickKroll plays Rafi Eitan, leader of the Mossad team.

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* ArgentinaIsNaziland: Well, there certainly were quite a few fugitive Nazis there, including Eichmann and Josef Mengele.
* BabiesEverAfter: The last scene reveals that Hanna is pregnant. Besides the usual happy ending aspect of this trope it's also a CallBack, as earlier in the film Peter told Eichmann that he hasn't had children because of the tragedies he suffered in the Holocaust.
* BadassIsraeli: An entire squad of Mossad agents who enter into Argentina and pull off a daring mission to find, kidnap, and smuggle out Adolf Eichmann alive.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: At one point after they find out that the Argentine police are looking for them, Moshe is pacing and sucking on his cigarette so hard that Rafi tells him to take a walk because he's making everyone else nervous.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Argentinian StateSec kidnaps Graciela, the servant working for the Israelis, and cruelly tortures her until she gives up where they are hiding.
* TheDeadHaveNames: Eichmann asks Peter whom he lost, then politely asks what was her name. It plays as Eichmann showing at least ''some'' empathy, but that's subverted later when he uses what he found out to play mind games with Peter.
* {{Flashback}}: Brief flashbacks to Eichmann's career during the war, including what appears to be [[Film/{{Conspiracy}} the Wannsee Conference]] and a scene where Eichmann witnesses a mass shooting of Jews in a Polish forest.
* GoodCopBadCop:
** Peter sort of falls into this accidentally. But after Aharoni's attempts to threaten Eichmann into signing a letter agreeing to be extradited fail, Peter's talking to Eichmann and showing some level of understanding gets him to sign.
** The Argentinian police brutally torture Graciela but don't get any info out of her. After Klaus comes in, screams for them to stop, and gently tells Graciela that it will all be over if she gives the address, she does.
* HassleFreeHotwire: The Mossad team has to get the hell out in a hurry after discovering that the cops are coming. They can't all fit into their car--but in a matter of seconds they hotwire another one and zoom off to the airport.
* HeadbuttOfLove: Peter and Hanna do this in a moment of relief after Eichmann is successfully snatched.
* ImagineSpot: Peter, who doesn't know just how his sister Fruma died in the Holocaust, imagines different fates--hanged from a tree, shot with a rifle, gassed in a van. Near the end of the film, as Eichmann is standing trial, he imagines her coming up to him and kissing him on the cheek.
* JewishMother: Peter's mom, who inquires nosily about his relationship with Hanna and tells him to eat his soup before it gets cold.
* JustFollowingOrders: Most of the Nazis who stood trial after the war used this defense and so does Eichmann, who insists that he was following orders from his superiors and thus is not personally guilty.
* ShoutOut: Sylvia meets Klaus at a movie theater where they are watching ''[[Film/ImitationOfLife1959 Imitation of Life]]'', specifically a scene featuring Susan Kohner--Chris Weitz's mom.
* WantedPoster: The police distribute the sketch of Peter. A sharp-eyed airport guard recognizes him and raises the alarm.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: A brief epilogue states that Eichmann was hanged in 1961 and Peter lived until 2005.
* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: Eichmann obviously doesn't know how Fruma died. But right before it's time to leave, and after Peter told him that they think she died in the woods outside Lublin, Eichmann tells him how he saw a mass shooting in that same forest. He describes how a woman who might well have been Fruma held up her baby before a single bullet killed them both. He wants to taunt Peter into killing him, but Hanna enters the room and stops Peter JustInTime.

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