

משפט קסטנר
November 7, 1994
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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.

Ya'akov Alperin
Cast

Avigail Ariely
Cast

Idit Gideon Ben-Eliyahu
Cast

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Yossi Basson

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

Season 1
3 episodes
November 7, 1994