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By Peter Keough

Racism and anti-Semitism on trial in The Goldman Case

The Goldman Case. Directed by Cédric Kahn. Opens October 18 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre and on October 25 at the West Newton Cinema.

Judging from a letter that&#;s read at the beginning of Cédric Kahn’s conventional but fiery true-life courtroom drama The Goldman Case, the defendant of the title, Pierre Goldman, is quite a handful.

In this brief he threatens to dismiss his defense lawyer Georges Kiejman (Arthur Harari), accusing him of being an “armchair Jew” who has taken the case because it will bring him publicity and adulation from leftist groupies. But, as the furious Kiejman points out, all of those accusations might well be directed at Goldman himself, a failed revolutionary and petty criminal who in is being tried again for four robberies, one involving the murder of two bystanders.

At the time of the trial