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Jake Paltrow On ‘June Zero’, His Film Set In Early 1960s Israel During Adolf Eichmann’s Final Days – “A Very Large History, But From A Very Small Lens”
Director Jake Paltrow talks 'June Zero', his unusual take on early 1960s Israel and the final days of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
So Shlomi Zebco (played by Tzahi Grad), a former Israeli paramilitary soldier who owns a commercial oven factory, was asked by the government to make one big enough to incinerate Hitler’s former top lieutenant, handing him a manual with instructions – in German. The story is told from three points of view: of a 13-year-old Jewish Libyan boy who is kicked out of school, finds a job at the factory and helps build the oven; Eichmann’s guard, a Moroccan Jew tasked with keeping the Nazi alive until his execution, neurotically seeing threats to his charge’s life everywhere; and a Polish survivor of Auschwitz, who served as the chief interrogator at the trial. Paltrow has said Jacques Becker’s Le Trou was a guide for creating a group of characters that are very different from one another, but bond over their concentration on a single task (in that movie it’s digging a hole to escape prison) as David finds his footing in a world of men at the oven factory.
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