The father in the film was once the head of the Hungarian police firing squad during World War II. After the surrender of Germany, he continued to brutally slaughter Jews. Later, he immigrated to the United States and raised his daughter to become an excellent criminal trial defense lawyer. His father's atrocities during World War II were exposed, and the Hungarian government proposed to the U.S. government to extradite him to Hungary for trial. Before the U.S. government agrees to extradition, he needs to be tried on whether he falsified his naturalization application. If he is convicted of war crimes during World War II, he will be stripped of his U.S. citizenship and extradited to Hungary. The daughter agreed to her father's request to act as his defense attorney.
The story line of this film is as follows:
1. The father is a diligent and kind-hearted first-generation immigrant in front of his daughter, and the daughter does not believe that the father has committed the cruel crimes that the witnesses testify, which is reasonable;
2 . Father never had a conscience discovery for the crime he had committed. Before the crime, one of his firing squad colleagues came to the United States to extort him. He paid him a monthly ransom, but after about half a year, the colleague Killed by a car accident;
3. The father confidently lied and denied to her daughter at home, to the witnesses who testified against him in court, and any other occasion, just like the current Chinese officials, fully showing that he was immersed under the dictatorship machine
4. No matter in the United States or in Hungary at the time of the Communist Party, my father had many friends to help him eliminate the charges against him, and finally won the lawsuit because of lack of evidence; as a person who took pleasure in killing people at that time, it was frightening . The leader of the firing squad, it is very difficult to refute all the evidence and witness testimony, which fully reflects the superb skills of his father and his friends in manipulating the American legal system and the former Soviet secret police system;
5. In dismissing the last witness’s testimony After the testimony caused the trial to be revoked due to lack of evidence, the daughter found a pawn ticket from the sister of her father's colleague who died in a car accident and redeemed a music box from the pawnshop. She accidentally saw the photo evidence of her father's atrocities;
6. Extremely sad The daughter was not able to hear the truth from her father's own mouth, and the father still denied it, although according to American law, even if there is new evidence, the father will not be prosecuted and tried again by the law for the same accusation.
The focus of this film is not on how good the daughter is in the trial defense, but on the 4th point mentioned above, that is, the father never had a conscience finding, and he continued to cover up the cruelty he committed 40 years ago with superb and awe-inspiring lying skills. Atrocities, and quite a few friends who are apparently also helping him for their own protection. It seems that no matter whether it is Nazi or communism, both of them can make people as hard as steel.
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