Israeli dramatization of the Kastner trial, which rocked Israeli society as no other Holocaust-related trial would until the capture of Eichmann some seven years later. What starts out as a defamation case turns into both a political stunt to uproot the ruling elite of 1950s Israel and an attempt ot justify the existence of the new, self-invented Jewish identity based on Zionism versus the rejected "Diaspora Mentality" of Holocaust victims. Did the State of Israel and its people find a convenient scapegoat to deflect its lack of desire to help Jews being murdered in Europe and, at the same time, create a new narrative that the victims themselves were to blame for their deaths? Was Kastner simply the victim of political expediency and the rejection by relatives of the murdered to accept that he could not have prevented the catastrophe? An insightful and moving drama showing both possiblities.

DVD-r is in Hebrew with hard-encoded English subtitles. Approx. 190 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality!