Series

The Kastner Trial

1994 · 1 season · Drama

IMDb

8.8

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

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

• Uri BarbashDirector
• Motti LernerWriter
• Yossi BassonProducer
• Moni Shem-TovDirector of Photography
• Zlata RazdolinaOriginal Music Composer
• Rachel YagilEditor

First aired

November 7, 1994

Last aired

November 21, 1994

Status

Ended

Original language

Hebrew

Episodes

3

Genres

Drama

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  Season 13 episodes · 1994