Killing Kasztner

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. From one point of view, Kasztner sounds like a classic hero.

Gaylen Ross’s methodical but overlong documentary “Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis” pores over the life and legacy of Rudolf Kastner (who is sometimes called Rezo, or Reszo, Kasztner), a leader of a Hungarian Jewish aid and rescue committee in World War II that helped Jewish refugees escape to Hungary from Nazi-occupied Europe. After Hitler invaded Hungary in March 1944, and the country’s [...] Vai alla recensione »