Oscar Isaac is proud of his new movie, Operation Finale , though the actor admits it isnt for a wonderful reason.

The film recounts how Israels national intelligence agency, the Mossad, ran a covert operation in Argentina in 1960 to capture Adolf Eichmann, an organizer of the Holocaust whos referred to in the movie as the architect of the Final Solution.

Isaac told HuffPost the story is especially important to him because of todays sudden shift into extreme rhetoric centered around nationalism and anti-immigrant rhetoric and a lot of division and hatred being whipped up.

Its easy to kind of think of the Nazis as just these monsters that came out of some abyss somewhere, and we fought them back, and now theyre gone. [That] they were these mindless psychopaths, the Guatemalan-born American actor said. But the truth is these were people that seemingly had consciences, had families that they loved, had jobs, seemingly loved their country and because of a demagogue were able to be led into extreme racial hatred. Thats an incredibly relevant thing thats happening now.

This isnt just a closed capsule of history, Isaac added, but something that could happen again, and I hope people draw those parallels.

In a separate interview, director Chris Weitz agreed with Isaac, reflecting on the movies unfortunate relevance in America.

To see Nazi flags on the streets of the U.S., to see torchlight processions ... I think we always like to imagine that we put the thing to bed, but, eventually, we havent, Weitz said. Its unfortunately perennial. It pops up in one form or another. Its not only just about Nazis and about anti-Semitism.

Yesterdays anti-Semitism could be tomorrows anti-immigrant sentiment, he added.

And not just in the U.S.

I think we were often shocked by what was happening back home, but at the same time we were in a country, Argentina, which had actually gone through its own military dictatorship and had concentration camps of its own and mass murder of its own, Weitz said. So I think there was this sort of looming that it was dj vu all over again.