Toman
New York Jewish Film Festival 2019
January 9 - 22, 2019
Zdenek Toman is a controversial and singular character in modern Czech politics. Toman tells the story of the unscrupulous careerist and politician who was also the unlikely savior of thousands of Jewish refugees after WWII.
Q&As with Ondřej Trojan, co-writer Zdena Simandl, and co-producer Zuzana Mistrikova
Zdenek Toman is a controversial and singular character in modern Czech politics. In the years following WW II, he served as the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, where he orchestrated the coup of 1948 and the Czechoslovak Communist Party’s rise to power. He was an unscrupulous careerist and an unsavory politician, blackmailing, exploiting, and intimidating his way to the top of the Communist food chain. But he has another unlikely other role in the history books—as a savior of Jews. Toman tells the story of the enigmatic man who organized the rescue of thousands of Eastern European Holocaust refugees by bringing them across Czechoslovak borders and setting the stage for their entry into Palestine. U.S. Premiere
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