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A documentary feature by award-winning 4ilmmaker Boaz Dvir, “To Kill a Nazi” tells thestory of a French family man who sets out in to kill his father’s Gestapo executioner andended up playing a pivotal role in history’s most audacious hostage rescue.
Transcript
00:04Where hasard, or destiny, wanted to meet me on board of this Air France aircraft?
00:13The plane takes off. And all of a sudden, somebody gets up and screams fire.
00:20And then you see two people who each have a hand grenade and a gun.
00:26As most of those on board Flight 139 panicked, one passenger remained strangely calm.
00:33Michel Cajot, a French business consultant, harbored deep doubts about a decision he made the previous year.
00:50Michel was haunted by his father's disappearance during World War II.
00:57Goldberg is put on a train going towards Auschwitz.
01:00Michel's father died in Auschwitz.
01:04Michel identified the Gestapo officer who arrested his father.
01:09Klaus Barbie, who was nicknamed the bachelor of Lyon, was the head of the Gestapo there.
01:24He would practice gun shooting in the backyard.
01:28Et il dit cette phrase qui moi m'a beaucoup marquée.
01:32Klaus Barbie était là devant moi, je voulais l'assassiner.
01:37C'est là qu'il a changé.
01:42He grabbed the first plane he could find.
01:44Michel flew to Tel Aviv with his 12-year-old son Olivier.
01:48They announced while we were in the plane that we were going to do a stop in Athens, in Greece.
01:53Athens was known to be a very dangerous place.
01:56The 1970s were the golden age of hijacking.
02:00And our plane was hijacked to Entebbe in Uganda.
02:06Michel viewed the hijacking as his once-in-a-lifetime second chance.
02:11That's at the point in which Project steps forward.
02:13Mais je dirais que Entebbe était fait pour les gens comme moi.
02:18The Entebbe episode is a chance for him to do the right thing, but in a positive way.
02:23Not taking someone's life, saving someone's life.
02:27The raid of Entebbe is one of the most important special operations of all time.
02:33And Cougot was absolutely crucial to its success.
02:37I was so shocked and I knew this story.
02:44It was really an extraordinary point of history.
02:56Going forward on time while we were able to get theatable,
02:57We have a chance to see it.
02:57We are ready.

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