Justice (working title)
In 1994, a scrappy Queens trial lawyer takes on a case everyone else considers impossible: helping a 93-year-old Holocaust-era refugee reclaim the fortune the Nazis stole from his family sixty years earlier. What begins as one old man’s final fight for justice grows into an international legal battle reaching the German government and the White House – and culminates in an impossible choice between honoring his dying wish and securing compensation for thousands of other Nazi victims.
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Project Overview
JUSTICE is the remarkable true story of a scrappy Queens trial lawyer who takes on a case everyone else considers impossible.
In 1994, 93-year-old Ferdinand Nacher asks Paul Kerson to continue a fight he has waged for sixty years: reclaim the fortune the Nazis stole from his family and transferred to Dresdner Bank, often referred to by Holocaust historians as the “Nazi Bank.”
What begins as one old man’s final fight for justice grows into an international legal battle involving powerful Wall Street law firms, the German government and the White House – and helps set in motion a multibillion-dollar compensation fund for Nazi victims.
But the greatest challenge is not winning the case. After Ferdinand dies, his heir is forced to make an impossible choice: honor his uncle’s dying wish and continue pursuing the family fortune, or abandon the claim so that thousands of elderly Holocaust survivors can receive compensation before it is too late.
Part legal thriller, part David-versus-Goliath story, JUSTICE is ultimately about the meaning of justice itself: what happens when doing right by one person may mean denying justice to thousands of others?
JUSTICE is envisioned as a 4 x 60-minute prestige limited series.
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