The Kastner Trial
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.
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Ya'akov Alperin
3 eps
Avigail Ariely
3 eps
Idit Gideon Ben-Eliyahu
3 eps
Sasson Gabai
Israel (Rudolf/Reszo) Kastner · 3 eps
Yosef Carmon
Atty. Gen. Haim Cohen · 3 eps
Alexander Peleg
Shmuel Hirsch · 3 eps
Yona Elian
Hanzi Brand · 3 eps
Ruth Geller
Katarina Szenes · 3 eps
Yoram Hattab
Attorney Marinsky · 3 eps
Ohad Shahar
Attorney Shmuel Tamir · 3 eps
Ilan Dar
Judge Binyamin Halvei · 3 eps
Anatol Constantin
Rabbi Freudiger · 3 eps
Shmuel Eiser
David Herman · 3 eps
Shlomo Tarshish
Yoel Palgi · 3 eps
Yitzhak Hizkiya
Joel Brand · 3 eps
