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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 14, 5 July 1976.

Monday, July 12 at 2 and 8.15 — Confrontation

Monday, July 12 at 2 and 8.15

Confrontation

Switzerland 1974 Wellington Premiere Chosen for the Rotterdam, Antwerp, Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, London and Edinburgh Film Festivals 1975.

A factual drama about a young Jewish medical student in the 1930s who shoots a Nazi leader the film asks: was he right, and if so, was it worth it. "The re-creation is scrupulous, with an intense understated performance by the main actor.... Oddly absorbing." - The Times. "A most complex moral issue about which no two people will feel the same. Was he a hero? Or was he a coward who took the law into his own hands?" - Sunday Express