• Studio: GR Films
  • Release Date: Oct 23, 2009
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  • Summary: Israel Kasztner. A Hungarian Jew who negotiated for lives with Adolf Eichman. A trial and verdict that forever stamped him as the "man who sold his soul to the devil." Murdered by Israeli assassins who gunned him down in front of his doorstep. Now fifty years later, his daughter's desperate efforts to restore her father's place as the greatest Jewish hero of the Holocaust, and to uncover the mystery that still clouds his death. (GR Films) Expand
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. If you know the name Rezso Kasztner, you won't need any encouragement to see Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis. If you don't, that is even more reason to see this documentary on the strange and compelling life and death of one of the most morally complex figures to come out of the Holocaust.
  2. Reviewed by: Eric Monder
    70
    Biased as journalism but engrossing as a movie, this documentary about a controversial Holocaust figure should be taken with a grain of kosher salt.
  3. Reviewed by: Mark Feeney
    63
    There’s no question that Kasztner has vastly more significance for the historian. Eckstein, a grim footnote to history, has much more for the artist.
  4. The film leaves you with a sense that Kastner’s name is a casualty of rhetorical crossfire.

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