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His memory is the last link between murder and justice.
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.Read moreLess
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
The story
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
Cast & crew
Leonard NimoyMel Mermelstein
Dabney ColemanWilliam Cox
Blythe DannerJane Mermelstein
Jason PressonBernie Mermelstein
Juliet SorciEdie Mermelstein
Benji GregoryKenny Mermelstein
David MarguliesRabbi Hier
William BassettLewis Brandon
Steve FrankenDan Greenspan
Carl StevenYoung MelExplore the crew
- Director
- Joseph Sargent
- Producer
- Robert B. Radnitz
- Writer
- Ronald Rubin
- Director of Photography
- Kees Van Oostrum
- Producer
- Terence Nelson
- Original Music Composer
- Henry Mancini