Keep Quiet

Name: Keep Quiet
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 10, 2017
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 76

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: February 10, 2017

Summary: As vice-president of Hungary’s far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials, and founded the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by a pro-Nazi group complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews during WWII. But his life was soon upended when Szegedi’s maternal grandparents wereAs vice-president of Hungary’s far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials, and founded the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by a pro-Nazi group complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews during WWII. But his life was soon upended when 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 to embrace his newfound religion. But is his transformation genuine? Or does he simply have nowhere else to turn? [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Joseph Martin and Sam Blair

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 90 min

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RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Feb 17, 2017

This expertly made, highly dramatic film achieves must-see status for the inevitable light it sheds on the persistence of toxic racial hatreds not just in Hungary but worldwide. Read full review

The Film Stage John Fink

Feb 4, 2017

Keep Quiet is as fascinating as it is powerful. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Feb 4, 2017

The film raises more troubling questions than it answers, but it's fascinating throughout nonetheless. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Feb 4, 2017

The filmmakers astutely reveal how a culture can eat another alive and somehow live with itself. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Mar 2, 2017

Because the footage of Szegedi was filmed over a number of years, the documentary reveals different stages of its subject's thinking. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Feb 16, 2017

Even if you are unmoved by Mr. Szegedi’s personal story (I found him somewhat sympathetic), what Keep Quiet tells us about its larger themes is upsettingly pertinent. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Feb 4, 2017

Keep Quiet is far more compelling as a portrait of a man in transition than it is as a man reborn, but Blair and Martin never solve the problem that they only have access to the latter. Read full review

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BHBarry

Mar 4, 2017

“Keep Quiet” is a documentary directed by Sam Blair and Joseph Martin. It depicts the life of Csanad Szegedi, the founder and leader of the Jobbik party in Hungary which is basically a right wing Nazi-type group spewing anti-semitism and hate and enforcing these ideas with a 2000+ member“Keep Quiet” is a documentary directed by Sam Blair and Joseph Martin. It depicts the life of Csanad Szegedi, the founder and leader of the Jobbik party in Hungary which is basically a right wing Nazi-type group spewing anti-semitism and hate and enforcing these ideas with a 2000+ member uniformed group called the Hungarian Guard.
From early childhood through his late 20’s, Mr. Szegedi relishes and loves the hate filled rhetoric he and his group engage in as they intimidate and disrupt the lives of those in the Hungarian Jewish community. At some point, however, Mr. Szegedi discovers that his maternal grandmother is a Jew and a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and this causes him to confront and reevaluate all that he had previously believed and pontificated. His story experiencing both ends of the the bigotry spectrum (i.e. Jew hater to orthodox t Jew) is well told by these creative and talented documentarians,. I give the film an 8.0 for a job well done.… Expand

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sgtslick_aus

May 25, 2017

7 are 10 american mainstream documentaries are about jews - no exaggeration. Look through history on here if u don't beleive me. Either directly related or about a jew, ie. a biography. This is no different.

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