Keep Quiet

Csanád Szegedi was a rising name in a far right party in Hungary and openly held anti-Semitic views. One day he learns what his family had kept hidden: his grandparents on his mother’s side were Jewish. That knowledge turns his life around and Szegedi moves towards Orthodox Judaism. The documentary follows that turn step by step. The film itself leaves how sincere the change is as a question still open. The distance between what he said in the past and what he is now is the hardest thing in the account. Whether a person can settle with their own past stands at the centre. The ninety minute documentary by Sam Blair and Joseph Martin, a joint British and Hungarian production, was completed in 2016.