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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781588177285
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1588177289
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageHebrewOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 22, 2003
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Description:
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and one of the most acclaimed independent films of recent years, The Believer is a daring and courageous portrayal of a young Jewish man living an impossible contradiction as a neo-Nazi. Danny Balint (Ryan Gosling) is an intense young man whose fierce intelligence and inexhaustible curiosity once made him a star pupil at his local Yeshiva. Now, at age twenty-two, he focuses this intensity on altogether more sinister aims; as a rising star in local neo-fascist circles, Danny spends his days attacking synagogues and fomenting hate among a devoted band of followers. Yet while working tirelessly to realize the destruction of his own people, Danny finds himself inexplicably drawn back to Judaism. This terrible inconsistency in the heart of Danny's soul - the yearning to study Torah and to attack Jews - and the avoidance of easy psychological explanations, make The Believer one of the year's most complex and provocative films.
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Movie will keep you on your toes and shock the hell out of you! Very well crafted.
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A Jewish Nazi.
That is a great way to summerize this film, and not only because that is the premice of the Beleiver. What the film is really about is a highly intelligent yet tourmented young man named Danny.
Danny grew up in the othordox faith but was always questioning the tenants of his inhairited beleif system. Flashbacks in the film show him questioning his teachers and rabbis. Danny had an incicive and critital mind: he was humilatiated by those he questioned. This ... Read More
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"The Believer" is not a film about neo-Nazism, although it does make some valid points about the ultimately religious nature of the rituals and philosophy of National Socialism (what some have termed "esoteric Hitlerism"), as well as the inconsistencies of anti-Semitic ideology (i.e., anti-Semites claim to hate Jews both because they're weak, yet at the same time because their influence on the world is so strong). It is a bit more about Judaism, evoking some of the mysteries which lie at the heart ... Read More
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Apparently I didn't get it, since all the other reviews are so glowing. Personally, I found "The Believer" to be boring, stereotyped and incomprehensible. A couple of bizarre sex scenes have been thrown in for good measure, naturally starring a twenty-something woman.
The main character, one Daniel Baliant, is a self-hating Orthodox Jew who becomes a neo-Nazi. All the usual Nazi stereotypes are there: skinheads, the fight between Daniel and The Big Tattooed Guy at the secret Nazi camp, ... Read More
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"The Believer" is an extraordinary film based on a true story. From the beginning it sucks you unwillingly into the violence and hatred permeating right-wing racial hate groups, and graphically and disgustingly illustrates terror tactics. The focus is on Danny Balint who is determined to kill Jews and set in motion a movement that will ignite and foster hatred, a return of the Nazis.
But the twist is that Danny himself is Jewish, raised in the teachings of the most religious aspects of ... Read More
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