Saw a trailer for this very interesting film and thought to share my enthusiasm before its debut.
In Nazi occupied Hungary, Rezso Kasztner, a Jew, dared to negotiate with Adolf Eichmann. While the Nazi killing machine was at its peak, Kasztner secured a rescue train for 1684 Jews from Budapest and bargained for tens of thousands of more lives. It may have been the largest rescue of its kind during the Holocaust, more than were saved by Oskar Schindler. Yet Kasztner was condemned as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel; accused as a collaborator in a trial, a verdict that divided a nation and forever stamped him as the “man who sold his soul to the devil.” He was ultimately assassinated by Jewish right wing extremists in Tel Aviv in 1957.
The film asks whether Kasztner was a heroic rescuer of Jews or a villain colluding with the Nazis - and it pursues the answer through accounts of the inflammatory political trial, startling revelations by Kasztner’s assassin, Ze’ev Eckstein, and a chilling meeting between the killer and Kasztner’s daughter.
It won critical acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival and played to sold out houses in Israel.
Seems worth checking out or putting on your Netflix list when it comes out on DVD.
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