DEC 8TH
SF JEWISH FILM FEST
The Goldman Case
SF JEWISH FILM FEST
A film by Cédric Kahn
w/ Arieh Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
Rated NR
1hr 55min
Presented in partnership with
THE SANTA FE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
November 1975, Paris. The appeal hearing of Jewish far-left activist Pierre Goldman is set to begin. Sentenced to life imprisonment for four armed robberies, one of which resulted in the death of two women, Goldman pleads not guilty to the murder charges.
The massively-covered court proceedings transform Goldman into a romantic figure and a hero of the intellectual left, even as the relationship with his young attorney Georges Kiejman frays. Ever the agitator for his ideals, the elusive and mercurial Goldman throws his own trial into chaos, risking a death sentence. The Goldman Case paints a psycho-pathological portrait of a militant revolutionary, but also of a society torn apart by patterns of racism and injustice that are still virulent today.
"Worthalter rightfully won this year’s best actor award at the Césars for playing Goldman as an irascible iconoclast with a hair-trigger temper who frequently transforms his own murder trial into a stage for bloviating rants — and yet remains sympathetic."
Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
"The Goldman Case is an absorbing, well-acted and unfortunately still relevant examination of historical bias, painstakingly put together from reports and transcripts."
Alexa Dalby
Dog and Wolf
DEC 8TH
SF JEWISH FILM FEST
The Goldman Case
A film by Cédric Kahn
SF JEWISH FILM FEST
w/ Arieh Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
Rated NR
1hr 55min
Presented in partnership with
THE SANTA FE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
November 1975, Paris. The appeal hearing of Jewish far-left activist Pierre Goldman is set to begin. Sentenced to life imprisonment for four armed robberies, one of which resulted in the death of two women, Goldman pleads not guilty to the murder charges.
The massively-covered court proceedings transform Goldman into a romantic figure and a hero of the intellectual left, even as the relationship with his young attorney Georges Kiejman frays. Ever the agitator for his ideals, the elusive and mercurial Goldman throws his own trial into chaos, risking a death sentence. The Goldman Case paints a psycho-pathological portrait of a militant revolutionary, but also of a society torn apart by patterns of racism and injustice that are still virulent today.
"Worthalter rightfully won this year’s best actor award at the Césars for playing Goldman as an irascible iconoclast with a hair-trigger temper who frequently transforms his own murder trial into a stage for bloviating rants — and yet remains sympathetic."
Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
"The Goldman Case is an absorbing, well-acted and unfortunately still relevant examination of historical bias, painstakingly put together from reports and transcripts."
Alexa Dalby
Dog and Wolf
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