Synopsis
- JEWS FOR SALE - Payment on delivery is the story of Rudolph Kasztner, sent to represent the Jewish Relief Organisation-Waadah, and explores the moral ethics of deals he was forced to make with Adolf Eichmann in order to secure the release of as many Hungarian Jews as he could. Promising goods that he couldn?t deliver and wares that he didn?t possess, Kasztner bluffs and double bluffs his way through what becomes a poker game of power, with each round he wins or loses representing thousands of lives. In the end, of the 600,000 deported he saves 1,684. After the war, Kasztner was to many people in Israel suspicious to be a collaborator with the SS ? and was killed by Isreali nationalists after his rehabilitation from the Israel High Court.
Crew
- Director: Bertram von Boxberg, Elias Perrig, Axel Brandt
- Screenplay: Peter Kelting, Josef Rölz
- Director of photography: Irina Roerig, Axel Brandt
- Editor (Cut): Axel Brandt
- Producer: Axel Brandt
- co-producer: Friedrich Schirmer
- Co-Author: Thomas Tanner
- Production company: Axel Brandt Filmproduktion
- coproduced by: Schauspiel Staatstheater Stuttgart
Cast
- Leading actor / Actress: Klaus Hemmerle, Andreas Schlager
- Actor / Actress: Hans Josef Eich, Sierk Radzei, Philipp Otto, Gottfried Breitfuß, Ernst Konarek, Peter Loth, Bernd Gnann, Elisabeth Findeis
Festivals
- (2005) Nordische Filmtage, Lübeck
- (2006) Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival, München
- (2006) Jewish Filmfestival Melbourne/Sidney
- (2006) Jewish Filmfestival Warsaw
