The Believer DVD 2001 / Directed by Henry Bean / Starring: Ryan Gosling, Billy Zane, Theresa Russell, Summer Phoenix

UPC 5706102354687

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: English 5.1

Subtitles: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish

TOTAL RUNTIME: 98 MINUTES

English Summary:

The Believer is a 2001 American drama film directed by Henry Bean and written by Bean and Mark Jacobson. It stars Ryan Gosling as Daniel Balint, a Jew who becomes a neo-Nazi. The film is loosely based on the true story of Dan Burros,

Daniel Balint is a former Jewish yeshiva student, brilliant but troubled, who is now a fanatically violent neo-Nazi in New York in his early twenties. As a child, he often challenged his teachers with unorthodox interpretations of scripture. He once argued that the Binding of Isaac was not about Abraham's faith but God's power: that God's purpose was not to have Abraham accomplish a particular task, but rather to demand unquestioning obedience, which Abraham refuses to give. Daniel concluded that God is a bully.

Daniel finds a meeting of fascists run by Curtis Zampf and Lina Moebius, where he also makes a connection with Lina's daughter Carla. Daniel advocates killing Jews, and a banker named Manzetti in particular, but Curtis and Lina oppose harming Jews on practical if not moral grounds. Impressed with Daniel's intelligence, Lina invites him to their camp retreat in the country. Afterward, Daniel and his fellow neo-Nazi friends pick a fight with two African-American men, get arrested, and are bailed out of jail by Carla. He spends the night with her but returns to the home of his ailing father. Daniel searches his Hebrew school notebooks and finds a semiautomatic pistol. He is harangued by his sister Linda for his Nazi beliefs, but she also urges him to stay and have Shabbat dinner with their father. The men watch television, which is forbidden on Sabbath according to some Orthodox Jews, leading them to commiserate on the incomprehensibility of Jewish law.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Ryan Gosling as Daniel "Danny" Balint  Billy Zane as Curtis Zampf
  • Jacob Green as young Danny
• Theresa Russell as Lina Moebius
• Summer Phoenix as Carla Moebius
• Ronald Guttman as Mr. Balint
• Glenn Fitzgerald as Drake
• Garret Dillahunt as Billings
• Heather Goldenhersh as Linda
• A. D. Miles as Guy Danielsen
• Tommy Nohilly as Whit
• Henry Bean as Ilio Manzetti
• Joshua Harto as Kyle
• Chuck Ardezzone as Chuck
• Elizabeth Reaser as Miriam
• Dean Strober as Stuart
  • Frank Winters as young Stuart
• Judah Lazarus as AviSascha Knopf as Cindy Pomerantz
  • James G. McCaffrey as young Avi
• Tovah Feldshuh as Woman in Shul
• Roberto Gari as Ancient Jew
• Eileen B. Weiss as Woman at Yom Kippur