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The Believer is a 2001 American drama film co-written (with Mark Jacobson) and directed by Henry Bean. The film stars Ryan Gosling as Daniel Balint, an Orthodox Jew who becomes a Neo-Nazi. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
The film is loosely based on the true story of Daniel Burros,[3] a member of the American Nazi Party and the New York branch of the United Klans of America who committed suicide after being exposed by a New York Times reporter to be JewishDaniel Balint is a former Jewish yeshiva student, brilliant but troublesome, who is now a fanatically violent Neo-Nazi in New York in his early 20's. 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 did not want Abraham to accomplish a particular task but instead asks unquestioning obedience, which Daniel refuses to give. He concluded that God is a bully.
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