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Monday, January 15 at 8:30pm Miami Theater Center
Wednesday, January 24 at 7:30pm Michael-Ann Russell JCC

France | 115 minutes | 2023

The Goldman Case

Southeast US Premiere

One of the most acclaimed films from the Cannes Film Festival, renowned French filmmaker Cédric Kahn’s enthralling courtroom drama delves into the mesmerizing 1976 trial of radical criminal Pierre Goldman and builds to a gripping, grandstanding climax. As rigorous in reworking the legal drama template as Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict and Justine Triet’s recent Anatomy of a Fall, The Goldman Case is an electrifying dramatization of a trial that gripped and divided France.

In a galvanizing performance, Arieh Worthalter plays Pierre Goldman, a leftist radical who committed several robberies, and now stands accused of murdering two pharmacists. And yet as the trial proceeds, it becomes fairly evident, at least to us, that the man is not guilty. Interrupting his lawyers, as well as the bigoted government prosecutor, he uses his trial as a platform to lash out and raise questions against racism, antisemitism, and injustice.

Directed with vérité realism and pinpoint historical precision, The Goldman Case is a focused, distilled dramatization that’s both subdued and electrifying, communicating so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history.

Awards

Cannes Film Festival

Director's Bio

Directed by Cédric Kahn

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Cédric Kahn started his career as an assistant editor for Maurice Pialat’s Under the Sun of Satan and then directed his first short film Les Dernières Heures du millénaire in 1990. Four years later, he received the Jean Vigo Prize for his feature film Too Much Happiness (1994). His internationally acclaimed film Red Lights premiered at the Berlinale in 2004 and, in 2014, he won the Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastián Film Festival for Wild Life. In a film career spanning more than three decades, he has won 9 international prizes and been nominated for an additional 21 awards.

Cast and Credits

Director

Cédric Kahn

Screenwriter

Nathalie Hertzberg, Cédric Kahn

Cinematographer

Patrick Ghiringhelli

Editor

Yann Dedet

Cast

Arieh Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié

Film Info

Year

2023

Country

France

Run-time

115 minutes

Language

French with English subtitles
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