Jake Paltrow on Taking a Fresh Look at the Trial of Adolf Eichmann in ‘June Zero’
variety.comMarta Balaga “The Good Night” helmer Jake Paltrow returns to Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival with “June Zero,” his first foreign-language production.
In the film – picked up for sales by ICM Partners and Films Boutique – he takes a closer look at the trial and execution of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, hanged in Israel in 1962.“My father [actor Bruce Paltrow, who passed away in 2002] was a World War II history obsessive.
Some of my earliest memories of watching television are of ‘The World at War,’ which later became something we watched together every year.
It was all deeply rooted in his Jewishness,” Paltrow tells Variety ahead of the film’s world premiere.It was never his intention to focus solely on Eichmann, however, or the much-publicized trial, even though he still finds it “relevant and intriguing,” he says. “I find it uninteresting and problematic to try and make a ‘character’ out of him.
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