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  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 30 m

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 were...

Directed By: Sam Blair, Joe Martin

  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 30 m

Keep Quiet

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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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 were...

Directed By: Sam Blair, Joe Martin

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100
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.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
83
Feb 4, 2017
Keep Quiet is as fascinating as it is powerful.
By John Fink FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 4, 2017
With far-right nationalist ideologies suddenly a matter of pressing interest to almost everyone, the timing is regrettably ideal for Keep Quiet. This fascinating documentary by co-directors Joseph Martin and Sam Blair finds a stranger-than-fiction hook for probing that disturbing global trend.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 4, 2017
The filmmakers astutely reveal how a culture can eat another alive and somehow live with itself.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
67
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.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

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Production Company AJH Films, Passion Pictures
Release Date Feb 10, 2017
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Website http://films.passion-pictures.com/
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Awards

Cinema for Peace Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
DocAviv Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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