Thursday, June 8, at 1 Pm, Plaza Frontenac Cinema
England/Hungary; in English and Hungarian with English subtitles; 92 minutes
The mind-boggling documentary Keep Quiet is about a far-right, anti-Semitic Hungarian politician who discovers his own hidden Jewish heritage when it is revealed that his beloved grandmother is an Auschwitz survivor. Faced with this new reality, he decides to embrace his heritage and become an Orthodox Jew. You can’t make this stuff up, is the phrase that springs to mind in this head-twisting true story.
Keep Quiet not only follows the course of events around far-right politician Csanad Szegedi but illuminates the pervasive and persistent antisemitism still found in Hungary. A British and Hungarian co-production, it is an eye-opening documentary.
Csanad Szegedi had been drawn to anti-Semitic beliefs since high school, views drew some uncomfortable looks from his mother but no comments. He became a founding member of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party,...
England/Hungary; in English and Hungarian with English subtitles; 92 minutes
The mind-boggling documentary Keep Quiet is about a far-right, anti-Semitic Hungarian politician who discovers his own hidden Jewish heritage when it is revealed that his beloved grandmother is an Auschwitz survivor. Faced with this new reality, he decides to embrace his heritage and become an Orthodox Jew. You can’t make this stuff up, is the phrase that springs to mind in this head-twisting true story.
Keep Quiet not only follows the course of events around far-right politician Csanad Szegedi but illuminates the pervasive and persistent antisemitism still found in Hungary. A British and Hungarian co-production, it is an eye-opening documentary.
Csanad Szegedi had been drawn to anti-Semitic beliefs since high school, views drew some uncomfortable looks from his mother but no comments. He became a founding member of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party,...
- 6/2/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Miramax have acquired U.S. distribution rights to “I, Tonya” by Steven Rogers, the incredible true life story of controversial figure skater Tonya Harding with Margot Robbie starring as Harding and Craig Gillespie directing.
The edgy comedy will be produced by Bryan Unkeless for Clubhouse Pictures, Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley for LuckyChap Entertainment and Steven Rogers, who also wrote the screenplay. Len Blavatnik and Aviv Giladi will executive produce for AI Film, which is financing the project. Rosanne Korenberg will oversee the project for Miramax.
The film will reportedly “peel back the layers of Tonya Harding’s sensationalized involvement in the 1994 attack on rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, exposing the absurd, tragic and hilarious story-behind-the-story of...
– Miramax have acquired U.S. distribution rights to “I, Tonya” by Steven Rogers, the incredible true life story of controversial figure skater Tonya Harding with Margot Robbie starring as Harding and Craig Gillespie directing.
The edgy comedy will be produced by Bryan Unkeless for Clubhouse Pictures, Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley for LuckyChap Entertainment and Steven Rogers, who also wrote the screenplay. Len Blavatnik and Aviv Giladi will executive produce for AI Film, which is financing the project. Rosanne Korenberg will oversee the project for Miramax.
The film will reportedly “peel back the layers of Tonya Harding’s sensationalized involvement in the 1994 attack on rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, exposing the absurd, tragic and hilarious story-behind-the-story of...
- 12/16/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
A role reversal so outrageous it could only be a work of nonfiction, the story of Csanad Szegedi, an infamous member of Hungary’s conservative Jobbik party, is as preposterously true as they come. A former Holocaust denier and anti-Semite, Szegedi now lives as a practicing Orthodox Jew determined to honor his familial past (his grandparents were Jewish). Fascinated by this turnaround, filmmakers Joseph Martin and Sam Blair created Keep Quiet, an in-depth study of the new life of Szegedi and co-lead Rabbi Boruch Oberlande, as a portrait of internal religious tension and the endless trying struggle to right one’s wrongs. As Keep […]...
- 4/25/2016
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Keep Quiet is a chilling and comprehensive documentary following the path to redemption – or a calculated political act – for Csanad Szegedi, a right-wing anti-Semite who rose to become the vice president of Hungary’s Jobbik party. The Jobbik are a conservative radical nationalist group that fashioned itself after the Nazi while calling for self-deportation, global isolationism, and an enhanced police state. Embroiled in a scandal when it’s revealed Szegedi is actually Jewish with a grandmother who survived Auschwitz, questions about his upbringing are at the forefront for much of the film’s first act. Did Szegedi sell out his own family history, including his grandmother, for populist appeal or did he really not know he was playing with fire?
Presenting the early part of his career in archival materials, including appearances, rallies and candid talking head interviews, Keep Quiet quietly builds an ambiguous character study that’s as calculated as the man.
Presenting the early part of his career in archival materials, including appearances, rallies and candid talking head interviews, Keep Quiet quietly builds an ambiguous character study that’s as calculated as the man.
- 4/24/2016
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
What if everything you once believed, that you thought was the truth and that guided your moral principles, turned out to be completely wrong? That's the entry point for the documentary "Keep Quiet," which premieres today at the Tribeca Film Festival. Read More: The 22 Most Anticipated Films Of The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival Directed by Joseph Martin and Sam Blair, the film tells the story of Csanad Szegedi, vice president of Hungary's far-right extremist party Jobbik, who fervently espoused antisemitic rhetoric and was a vocal supporter of the Holocaust denial movement. However, his life changed when he discovered his maternal grandparents were Jewish (his grandmother survived Auschwitz), which set him on a journey to learn about his faith. And as you'll see in the clip below, it's not an easy process for a man who spent so much time spewing hate. "Keep Quiet" will have its first screening at the Tribeca...
- 4/14/2016
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
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