June Zero

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June Zero

2024

1h 45m

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Drama

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The 1961 preparations for the execution of Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Holocaust, are revisited in a gripping and surprising new vision from American filmmaker Jake Paltrow. Based on true accounts, June Zero is told from the unique perspectives of three distinct figures: Eichmann's Jewish Moroccan prison guard, an Israeli police investigator who also happens to be a Holocaust survivor and a precocious and clever 13-year-old Libyan immigrant.

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At the crux of history and memory, June Zero takes an original and bold approach in examining the aftermath of the Holocaust.

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Amy Nicholson

Washington Post

07/05/2024

There’s a bit of vengeful comedy when the cinematographer Yaron Scharf introduces Eichmann feet first on the toilet over the sounds of Beethoven’s “Pathétique.”

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Bob Strauss

San Francisco Chronicle

07/03/2024

3/4

Though each of the plotlines in “June Zero” stir up ethical questions, its primary approach is to look at people living their lives while an extraordinary event comes to its climax. That leaves the movie open to multiple, marvelous interpretations...

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Gregory Nussen

Slant Magazine

07/01/2024

3/4

The film ponders what it means to have the power to distort and weaponize collective memory.

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Clotilde Chinnici

Loud and Clear Reviews

09/14/2024

3/5

While it is undoubtedly narratively flawed, June Zero is a fascinating film for the questions and issues it evokes, and the way Jake Paltrow decides to deal with them on screen.

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

08/14/2024

4/5

When all is said and done, June Zero portrays a historic period in Israel in a way that's different from the history books.

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Sarah Boslaugh

TheArtsStl

08/13/2024

6/10

June Zero is an unusual film based on an interesting idea that it doesn’t quite know how to carry out.

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Talia C

@RT53056121 08/02/2024

What an extraordinary film!!! The story unfolds against a true historical event that was a milestone in Israeli society. As a Hebrew speaker who lived at that time (although I was was pre-teen) and now an American novelist with an ear for dialogue, I found the dialogue absolutely perfect--nuanced and culturally correct for the time. So were the characters played by a great cast, each very authentic to a society still coming into itself. Growing up in Tel-Aviv, I recognized the kind of run-down factories next empty lots of thistles, the informalities in which the dynamics of the characters took place, and I recall the ongoing radio broadcasts during Eichman's trial and the emotions around me. Hurray to Jake Platrow for tackling this sensitive film in a language he doesn't speak--and coming out a winner.

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Natalie W

@RT17489653 07/09/2024

Saw the movie this weekend, it's very beautiful and moving. What an incredible story to tell

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Bahad j

@RT27093708 07/06/2024

The movie was a very exciting adventure from start to finish

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Orna

07/01/2024

Brilliantly told and acted a forgotten history

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Susan

06/30/2024

I thought it was an interesting presentation on a rough topic. It was creative in the storytelling and unusual

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The 1961 preparations for the execution of Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Holocaust, are revisited in a gripping and surprising new vision from American filmmaker Jake Paltrow. Based on true accounts, June Zero is told from the unique perspectives of three distinct figures: Eichmann's Jewish Moroccan prison guard, an Israeli police investigator who also happens to be a Holocaust survivor and a precocious and clever 13-year-old Libyan immigrant.

Director: Jake Paltrow
Producer: Miranda Bailey, Oren Moverman, David Silber
Screenwriter: Jake Paltrow, Tom Shoval
Distributor: Cohen Media Group
Production Co: Cold Iron Pictures, Metro Communications
Genre: History, Drama
Original Language: Hebrew
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 28, 2024, Limited
Release Date (DVD): Aug 13, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $19.6K
Runtime: 1h 45m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.66:1)