The Jewish Cardinal is a French feature film from 2012 about Jean-Marie Lustiger, born Aron Lustiger. His turbulent life was everything but ordinary - Aaron Lustiger was the son of immigrants, Polish Jews, who came to France. And where he became the charismatic archbishop of Paris. This biographical film emphasizes its strategic role between Christianity and Judaism. Jean- Marie Lustiger born Aron Lustiger Born in Paris in 1926, he converted to Catholicism in 1940, in occupied France. He studied at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, then in Orléans and later at the Sorbonne. Jean-Marie Lustiger was elected to the Académie Française, in 1996 he was introduced to the famous hall sous la Coupole. He considered himself the son of the Old and New Testaments. There was no surprise when his cousin Arno Lustiger, a German historian of Polish descent and survivor of the Holocaust, spoke Caddish, the Jewish prayer, at the cardinal's tomb. Jean-Marie Lustiger died in