The Kastner Trial
Ended
1994
3 Episodes
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Cast
Ya'akov Alperin
Avigail Ariely
Idit Gideon Ben-Eliyahu
Sasson Gabai
Israel (Rudolf/Reszo) Kastner
Yosef Carmon
Atty. Gen. Haim Cohen
Alexander Peleg
Shmuel Hirsch
Yona Elian
Hanzi Brand
Ruth Geller
Katarina Szenes
Yoram Hattab
Attorney Marinsky
Ohad Shahar
Attorney Shmuel Tamir
Ilan Dar
Judge Binyamin Halvei
Anatol Constantin
Rabbi Freudiger
Shmuel Eiser
David Herman
Shlomo Tarshish
Yoel Palgi
Yitzhak Hizkiya
Joel Brand
Synopsis
This three-part television courtroom drama series is based on one of the most controversial trials in Israel’s history. In 1944 Dr Yisrael Kastner, a member of the committee for the rescue of Hungarian Jewry, succeeded in saving the lives of 1,685 Jews by gaining permission for them to leave Budapest. A decade later he was accused of collaborating with the Nazis and was assassinated. Focusing on the courtroom procedures of 1954–5, as well as on the private lives of the protagonists, and drawing on court proceedings and interviews, the drama deconstructs the narrative of the Holocaust, bringing out issues such as the ineffective policy of the Zionist leadership regarding the Holocaust and the morally ambivalent stance of the survivors.