Sometimes bigger is better - but the project has to be worth it. That's the lesson learned by Werner Duetsch of Cologne, Germany pubcaster ARD/WDR. He's commissioning editor for the strand 'Dokumentarfilm' and helped spearhead The Specialist. The documentary is a refashioning of the well-known and, as it happens, well-recorded 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the SS colonel who kept the trains arriving on time at the Nazi death camps. Duetsch says The Specialist was an exceptional project for several reasons, not least of which was the level of international collaboration. Twenty sources contributed the 2 million (US$1.9 million) needed to make the 128-minute documentary, executive produced by Paris-based Eyal Siva..
Source : Matthew Sylvain — Real Screen, 01.08.2002