The Goldman Case is a film that tells the story of the trial of Pierre Goldman, a left-wing French activist, which became a cause célèbre that reflected the political, ideological and racial tensions that marked the 70s in Europe.
The director said in an interview about the film “It took some time for this idea to mature to understand that it was not Goldman's story or life that interested me, but his words and his thoughts that led me to the trial. Because what better stage can there be for a speech than a trial?”
“Beautifully written, directed, and acted, is a portrait of a trial, and of a courtroom, that becomes, for the viewer, a container for adjudicating essential questions of truth and justice, and of what it means to have integrity, to risk everything to live by your own terms. Goldman's 1976 acquittal for murder, in this film, a in real life, can be regarded as a refusal, a "no" to the legacy of antisemitism, and of racism in France, a rejection of police and of institutions. This rejection of all bigotry, this "no," matters still now -perhaps more than ever”