Keep Quiet
This fascinating documentary by co-directors Joseph Martin and Sam Blair finds a stranger-than-fiction hook for probing [a] disturbing global trend.
Keep Quiet
Csanad Szegedi's story is remarkable; as vice-president of Jobbik, Hungary's far-right extremist party, Szegedi regularly espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials. He was a founder of the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by the Arrow Cross, a pro-Nazi party complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews during WWII. Then came a revelation which upended his life: Szegedi's maternal grandparents were revealed to be Jewish and his beloved grandmother an Auschwitz survivor who had hidden her faith fearing further persecution. KEEP QUIET depicts Szegedi's three year journey as he is guided by Rabbi Boruch Oberlander to embrace his newfound religion, forcing him to confront the painful truths of his family's past, his own wrong doing and the turbulent history of his country. But is this astonishing transformation a process of genuine reparation and spiritual awakening? Or is he simply a desperate man who, having failed to suppress the truth, has nowhere else to turn?
Genre
Documentary,
Jewish Culture
Runtime
93
Language
English,
Hungarian
Director
Sam Blair,
Joseph Martin
Cast
Csanad Szegedi
Awards:
Nominee, Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com
A riveting documentary about a young Hungarian neo-Nazi leader whose life is upended when he discovers his Jewish roots, Joseph Martin and Sam Blair’s “Keep Quiet” would be valuable and important if it only told of one man’s journey from bigotry to repentance. But this expertly made, highly dramatic ...
Played at
Encino
Town Center 5
Beverly Hills
Lumiere Music Hall
Pasadena
Playhouse 7
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