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In 1944, Rezsö Kasztner saved over 1,600 Jewish lives by negotiating with Eichmann in Nazi-occupied Hungary, and may have saved tens of thousands of more lives. As a post-war émigré to Israel, he was vilified for this extraordinary act. In 1954, an inflammatory and politically divisive trial that began as a libel case with Kasztner as plaintiff turned against him, condemning him as a Nazi collaborator who sold his soul to the devil. In 1957, Kasztner was gunned down on his own doorstep by an extremist.

Filmed over eight years, Director Gaylen Ross investigates this tale of murder, intrigue, and heroism through accounts of the inflammatory political trial, startling revelations after 50 years by Kasztner's assassin, Ze'ev Eckstein, and a chilling meeting between the killer and Kasztner's daughter, Zsuzsi.

Hear from Gaylen Ross, the Emmy Award winning director and producer who directed this film. Ross will share her experiences as she investigated the Kasztner story and field questions from the audience. Ross' films have covered such diverse subjects as Swiss banks and the Holocaust accounts, cabaret and Broadway Theater star Laurie Beechman, bank fraud, gambling in America, Russian mail-order brides and include a documentary on diamond dealers, Dealers Among Dealers, which is considered the only inside look into this very cloistered world. Her newest film, Caris' Peace, is the story of theatrical actress Caris Corfman's return to stage after brain trauma and losing her short-term memory.