This film is an act of justice. This film shows an important side of the efforts to know the truth of the Shoah. I love the Kasztners for never giving up on Reszo. I honor Ze'ev for telling the truth and apologizing to Zsuzsi and the family.
I love Israel. I am proud of Israel. I am proud of the Kasztners and of Israel for resolving Reszo's tragedy and exonerating his name.
This movie should be required for any student of the Shoah. I will make sure my children see it.My heart, my love, my empathy goes to the Kasztner family as well as to all of Am Yisrael. My heart even goes out to Ze'ev Eckstein, whom at first I condemned, then later forgave. He was a patsy and ideologically he believed he was an agent of Israel and of justice. He admitted his wrongdoing and apologized to the Kasztners. Not many people ever do that, ever in a history of tragedies throughout time. The Shoah devastated Am Yisrael and the world. It still does. The pain, the loss still go on. The injustice still has monstrous devastation. The hurt, the anger, the hate that the Shoah has instilled in the hearts of so many victims is another crime and effect of the Shoah. It turns Jews against Jews. It turns victims against victims. Kasztner was no Nazi or collaborator. He was a Jew, a Jewish father and husband and hero whom did his best to save as many from the Shoah's merciless jaws as he could. In misplaced rage at the monstrosity of the Nazi crimes, he was blamed and murdered.
I also want to add comments about technical aspects of the film. It is exceptionally well made. The uniqueness of having thorough, intimate interviews with actual parties involved is historically amazing and potent. The content is so disturbing and even traumatic that it may be difficult for many viewers to get through it in one sitting. That is how honest and powerful the material is presented. The cinematography, the directing, the editing are all excellent. It really is a very powerful historical film that shows truth on almost lost and forgotten pieces of history. It is a fair, respectful and powerful investigation of a man who was horribly wronged by history and died for it.
Another thing I wanted to include is that this movie sheds light on the women of the Kasztner family: beautiful, intelligent, perfect embodiments of Jewish and Israeli virtue and character. They are honest, dignified, down to earth, well-spoken and tirelessly pursue vindication for Reszo. They are perfect examples of Jewish beauty and womanhood. Reszo can see from heaven what lovely and honorable grand daughters he has. Zsuzsi is quite a mother and a perfect daughter. Their loss is painful and cannot be replaced, but having Reszo's archives included at Yad Vashem is such a powerful act of justice and history. This movie is so good.

This documentary is a very interesting view into post WW2 Israel and survivors. I found extremely interesting the testimony of discrimination. After going through hell on earth, survivors had to take insults from people who had lived in Palestine during the war and never know the nazi terror. If you focus on the testimonies from people that were on the train, you can see a picture that for some reason the lady in the documentary did not shine a light upon. Rich people. Can you forget or forgive the spoiled rotten rich old hag that talks badly of Kasztner becasue she spent time in the camp and wasnt supposed to happen??? So she isnt grateful to him. Very much sounds like she paid a ticket for something she wasnt happy with. Seems very much like very rich Jews paid for other very rich people to be saved. Kasztner OBVIOUSLY saved in that train his family and friends. Come on WHO wouldnt??? are they REALLY making him a fault of this? BUT he also scooped up hundreds orphans. Clearly penniless. Random people jumped on the train even tho they werent supposed be there. So yeah maybe he was an intermediary between rich jews and their people rescue, but he tried to fit in that "contract" as many as he could. I am a bit confused to be honest. Other people which are now righteous among nations collaborated/bribed Nazis to save Jews. But if a Jew does that, is a collaborator? Im very perplexed about this. All very confusing, sprinkled with very tangible conspiracy and textbook scapegoat clues.
I hope one day a written memoir with the assassin truth will surface.

I hardly have grounds to have an opinion about this story because I'm not Jewish, I had no one I knew personally who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust. But what happened to this man seems totally misguided and as judgmental as those who attacked him claim they are unfairly judged. What a paradox. He silently protected the Jewish Council who worked along side him (or he worked alongside them) in getting the Jews on the trains to safety. How could people who've been through the hatred/persecution and then liberation turn around and condemn this man for saving as many as humanly possible at that time, but NOT saving MORE?? That seems harsh even though I know their pain ran deep.
He deserved the recognition that finally came; as the Kasztner survivors poured into the event recognizing his contribution..... the faces, young and old and in between.... how can one not be moved and grateful these family lines were spared???
The ending to this film should have been there and NOT going back to the man who killed Kasztner. That final segment should have been included in the part about him..... and let the end be with all those lives saved.

Very well made. Fascinating technique of blending history with live interviews of today. No one can understand the pain of survivors guilt -- the movie did well to provide a broad picture of a variety of opinions and emotions. That said, this documentary suffers from incompleteness, resulting in bias, due to totally overlooking an important action by Kasztner -- his role in the deliberate suppression of the Vrba-Wetzler report of April 1944, prior to Kasztner's negotiations with Eichmann, prior to the 1944 Hungarian Jew deportations to Auschwitz (May 15 - July 9 -- 145 trains with about 450,000 Hungarian Jews), and prior to the Kasztner train of June 30, 1944. A total of about 600,000 Hungarian Jews died in the Holocaust in 1944-1945. The question is, if they had had knowledge of the truth of the death camps, might they have made other choices instead of quietly complying? And even if they would have made the same choices, should they have had all the information anyway that would affect that choice? The disproportionate number of friends and family on the Kastner trains, the suppression of the facts about Auschwitz, and the intercessions on the behalf of the Nazis at Nuremberg are troubling. It is heroic to talk to Eichmann personally, and save 1684. It is not heroic to withhold information that was intended by Vrba and Wetzler to be dessiminated, that impacted the lives of 800,000 and the deaths of 600,000. Is it traitorous? Is it self-serving? It is impossible to adjudicate what is moral in such an immoral time. However, that said, this movie did a disservice to this highly complex situation by ignoring this major action by Kasztner. Despite this, it is a compelling and informative documentary, very well made, not as hard to view as many other Holocaust movies, and a fascinating insight into early Israel history.

Beyond the obvious, essential presentation of the facts surrounding a significant historical element of the Holocaust and of Israel and of the often inexplicable, intricately complex dynamics of both, this documentary raises the bar for revealing the frailties and the strengths of and the dilemmas facing all mankind. While the cameras are focused on those individuals who were directly involved or were profoundly affected by one man's deeds and his assassination, light equally is shed on the culture of and the political machinations in Israel during the many decades in which the totality occurred. Striking is the visual and sensory impact of being made immutably aware how utterly feeble and empty are the generalizations made about Jews, Jewry, and Israel itself. There is no depiction of the nightmare that is the Holocaust but a without-apparent-agenda search for truths and accountability. I personally hope never to get over the experience of engaging in this praiseworthy film....

I liked this documentary, and it was nice to see Tommy Lapid in it and learn a few interesting tidbits about his friendship with Kasztner. I'm giving it four stars because I thought the film was a bit too long, and I found that too much time was dedicated Eckstein, Kasztner's killer. I also think the film lacked the necessary background about the situation of Jews in Hungary in March 1944 and on. But overall a good documentary for those who are interested in the Kasztner affair.

Very important historical event in Israel is treated with sensitivity and intelligence. The personal pain of the Kaszner family is well captured, and very moving in this film. The fact that the Mapai and the Right Wing parties ruined the reputation and killed a man for their own political posturing and power grabs could have been explained more thoroughly, as could Israel's ambivalent and truly neglectful response to Holocaust survivors. Still an excellent Doc.

very well done. they did not waste time on over sentimental portrayals. Some questions answered and others remain, new ones raised. A well made and insightful work of research and well worth your time to watch it.