Wednesday September 27, 2023 was released in theaters The Goldman Trial, the film which recreates the trial, in 1976, of far-left activist Pierre Goldman, accused of a double murder on Boulevard Richard Lenoir in Paris. Was Jean-Jacques Goldman involved in the project? Cédric Kahn responds to Nice morning.
The famous Goldman trial has been at the heart of the news in recent days. The reason ? The theatrical release this Wednesday, September 27, 2023 of Cédric Kahn’s event film, reconstituting this intense legal episode which marked France in the 1970s… and at the end of which Pierre Goldman, far-left activist, was sentenced to life sentence before being acquitted for good behavior. On this occasion, the filmmaker answered questions from our colleagues at nice morning in particular evoking the expatriate singer in London Jean-Jacques Goldman, famous half-brother of the protagonist.
“I would like him to see the film and tell me what he thinks of it”
In 1976, far-left activist Pierre Goldman, defended by the late Georges Kiejman, lawyer and former minister of François Mitterrand, was sentenced at first instance to life in prison for four robberies, one of which resulted in death. of two pharmacists, boulevard Richard Lenoir in Paris. Pierre Goldman becomes a popular figure portrayed in The Goldman Trial by Cédric Kahn, a closed session which puts spectators at the forefront of the affair. For nice morningthe latter thus claims to have sought the opinion of Jean-Jacques Goldman, famous half-brother of the accused brutally murdered in 1979: “I would love for him to see the film and tell me what he thinks of it. But as he has always remained very discreet about this matter, I did not ask him.”
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Cédric Kahn discusses the Goldman trial
For director Cédric Kahn, Pierre Goldman despite himself embodies the symbol of a France politically divided. “The Trial is right-wing France against left-wing France“, he declared to Point has the occasion of the presentation of his film at the opening of the Quinzaine des filmmakers in Cannes, in 2023. “Seeing a figure as romantic and tragic as Pierre Goldman, a child of the Shoah, proclaim his innocence, and also carry within himself a lot of forgiveness… All of this touches me a lot. In fact, I had as much of a fantasy of making a film about Goldman as I did of making a trial film.“, he finally explained to South-West Sunday.
