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Year: 2001 USA: IDP UK: Pathé Distribution Cast: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Glenn Fitzgerald, Theresa Russell, Billy Zane, Garret Dillahunt, Kris Eivers, Joel Garland, Joshua Harto, Tommy Nohilly, Chuck Ardezzone, Roberto Gari, Heather Goldenhersh, A D Miles, Elizabeth Reaser, David Bailey, Christopher Kadish, Sascha Knopf, Jordan Lage, Judah Lazarus, Sig Libowitz, Dean Strober Director: Henry Bean Country: USA USA: 100 mins UK: 98 mins USA Rated: R for strong violence, language and some sexual content UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, violence, and sex USA Release Date: 17 May 2002 (Limited Release - Los Angeles and New York) UK Release Date: 7 December 2001 PHASE9 movie review Synopsis Twelve-year-old Danny Balint (Ryan Gosling) is a precocious intellectual, arguing with the rabbis at the yeshiva, and running away from gentile toughs on the street. By twenty-two, he is a skin-head, living alone, browsing militia movement websites and developing ever more complex and fervent anti-Semitic theories. At a neo-Fascist organising meeting at the home of Lina Moebius (Theresa Russell), Danny impresses people with his articulate violence, especially Lina's bright and complicated daughter, Carla (Summer Phoenix), who is more interested in Danny's mind and passion than in her mother's politics. As Danny rises in right-wing circles, his increasing prominence threatens to expose him as a Jew. Fleeing New York with fellow skinheads, he picks a fight in a kosher deli, ends up in court and is sentenced to "sensitivity training" with elderly Holocaust survivors. As they tell their terrible stories, Danny explodes in rage at the Jews' helplessness before the Nazis, their willingness to endure and survive rather than fight back and be destroyed. Yet the survivors affect him more than he knows or would admit. Consequently when he leads a group of skinheads into a nearby synagogue to plant a bomb the sanctuary, the ark, and above all, the Torah touch Danny in a way he doesn't expect and doesn't want. Based on the true story of a Jewish Nazi, THE BELIEVER is directed by Henry Bean. DVD EXTRAS Original Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 16x9 Sound Quality: Dolby Digital 5.1 Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer 30 minute documentary “The Anatomy of a Scene” |
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