The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) on Netflix
Arthur Goldman, a Jewish industrialist and camp survivor, banters with his assistant Charlie in a Manhattan high-rise. Israeli agents seize him to stand trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal.
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Plot summary
Arthur Goldman is Jewish and a Nazi death camp survivor. Now a rich industrialist, he lives in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. One day, Israeli secret agents burst in and kidnap Goldman and take him to Israel for trial on charges of being a Nazi war criminal. Goldman's trial forces his accusers to face not only his presumed guilt, but their own as well.
At the end it appears that Goldman falsified the dental records which the Israelis used to identify him in order to bring about the trial. When the deception is revealed by the Israeli prosecutor, Goldman is left standing in the trial court's bulletproof glass box, a broken man, and dies.
The plot was inspired by actual events surrounding the kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Cast
- Leonidas Ossetynskias Samuel Weisberg(Leonidas Ossettynski)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
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- Robert Shaw, who wrote the novel and the play the film was adapted from, disapproved of the screenplay and had his name removed from the credits; after viewing the completed film he asked to have it put back.
- The film's plot was inspired by the kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann, the German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer who was one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.
