Protocols of Zion (2005)

A documentary about the rise of anti-Semitism in the USA after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Director:

Marc Levin

Stars:

Kofi Annan, Joanne Baron, Shmuley Boteach

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Kofi Annan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Joanne Baron	...	Herself
Shmuley Boteach	...	Himself - Radion Host, Talk America (as Rabbi Shmuley Boteach)
Michael L. Brown	...	Himself - Author, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus
James Carroll	...	Himself - Author, Constantine's Sword
Abraham Cooper	...	Himself - Simon Wiesenthal Center (as Rabbi Abraham Cooper)
Father Coughlin	...	Himself (archive footage)
Eric Daniels	...	Himself - Prisoner
Scott DeCarlo	...	Himself - East Rutherford, NJ Police Department
Mehdi Eliefifi	...	Himself - Interfaith Activist
Abraham Foxman	...	Himself - Anti-Defamation League
Hutton Gibson	...	Himself - Mel Gibson's Father (voice)
Mel Gibson	...	Himself (archive footage)
Hadassah Gross	...	Herself (as Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross)
Ted Haggard	...	Himself - President, National Association of Evangelicals (as Pastor Ted Haggard)

Storyline

After the infamous 9/11 attacks of 2001, there came a virulent resurgence of antisemitism reemerging in America convinced that the Jews were responsible for the terrorism. Feeding this is the repeatedly debunked book libel, Protocols of the Elders of Zion and its disguised adaptations. Director Marc Levin goes on a journey to interview the promoters of this kind of hate in all its forms.

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Plot Keywords:

libel | anti semitism | book | neo nazi | religion | 

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Taglines:

Some lies never die.

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Genres:

Documentary

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, some disturbing content and brief nudity

Details

Official Sites:

ThinkFilm [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 November 2005 (France)

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$21,733 (USA) (21 October 2005)

Gross:

$177,861 (USA) (17 February 2006)

Company Credits

Production Co:

HBO/Cinemax Documentary

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of the subjects from Trembling Before G-d, another American documentary concerning contemporary Jewish issues, can be seen briefly in the anti-war protest.

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Goofs

When Marc Levin is walking up a gravel road with a white supremacist leader, the shots from behind show them passing several parked cars as they are engaged in conversation. Shots of them from the front, however, do not include these cars. In addition, the shots from behind show the two persons approaching the same cars several times.

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Connections

Features The Eternal Jew (1940)

User Reviews

Zionists! Yikes!

Protocols Of Zion is a bit of a fun documentary that sort of dives into the subject of anti-semitism, by covering the strange popularity of The Protocols of Elders Of Zion and how people took what was in that book as complete fact. The filmmaker, Marc Levin, takes us on a trip around North America (but mostly around New York) and talks to a wide range of folk, from Skinheads to Sikh leaders to yes, Rob Reiner, to try to get down to the Zion mystery, on the way he finds out that people make up the weirdest things about the Jews. Did you know they were pre-warned about September 11th? That they run Hollywood? These and other fallacies are explored, but rather lightly I found, nothing really extreme here.