“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 3
stars for a job well done.
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