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The Believer
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2053
- IMDb #2048
- Rotten Tomatoes #1486
- Metacritic #1364
- Letterboxd #2455
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1969
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1471
- Metacritic Critics #1041
- Metacritic Audience #2190
- Criticker #1083
- Kinopoisk #2045
- AlloCiné #2440
- Trakt #2814
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 57, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 82.
See the most agreed on films →A young Jewish man in New York City becomes a violently anti-Semitic neo-Nazi. His intellectual rage and profound self-loathing make him a rising star within the movement. The film explores the deep contradictions of his identity as his past and his beliefs violently clash, leading to an internal crisis that threatens to consume him and those around him.
Details
- Director
- Henry Bean
- Writers
- Henry Bean, Mark Jacobson
- Studio
- Fuller Films, Fireworks Pictures
- Released
- 23 August 2001
- Country
- United States, Canada
- Language
- English, Hebrew
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
- $1.3M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award 2001 | Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award | Winner | |
| 14th European Film Awards 2001 | Best Non-European Film | Henry Bean | Nominee |
| 23rd Moscow International Film Festival 2001 | Golden George | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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×| Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award | Winner |
| Golden George | Winner |
| Best Non-European Film | Henry Bean | Nominee |