Blood in the face

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Movie
German title Blood in the face
Original title Blood in the Face
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 78 minutes
Rod
Director Anne Bohlen,
Kevin Rafferty ,
James Ridgeway
script James Ridgeway
production Anne Bohlen,
Kevin Rafferty,
James Ridgeway
camera Kevin Rafferty
cut Kevin Rafferty

Blood in the face ( German blood on his face ) is an American documentary from the year 1991 about white supremacy groups in the United States. The film was directed by Anne Bohlen , Kevin Rafferty and James Ridgeway and includes various interviews with members of these movements.

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Blood in the Face goes back to the idea of ​​the author James Ridgeway, who is also one of the directors of the film. The documentary was mainly shot in Cohoctah Township (in Livingston County ), Michigan . Essentially, it focuses on meetings and exchanges of ideas between members of the Ku Klux Klan , neo-Nazis , racists , conspiracy theorists , Holocaust deniers , evangelical Christians who accuse the US citizens of color of wanting to start a racial war in the US.

Filmmakers Anne Bohlen and Kevin Rafferty also conduct a number of interviews with supporters of the “ Christian Identity Movement”. Some of these favor the idea of ​​moving to the northwestern US, essentially the c . On the audio commentary on Roger & Me , filmmaker Michael Moore says he also had an appointment with a follower of the movement, but it was canceled at the last minute. Moore is not in the film, but you can hear him doing an interview.

criticism

The Rottentomatoes website, which evaluates reviews, gave the film a positive rate of 100% (five reviews were evaluated).

additional

  • Archival footage of George Lincoln Rockwell , founder of the American Nazi Party , can be seen.
  • The film makes reference to the organization The Order .
  • In the film, the view is expressed several times that the Holocaust did not exist and that the USA is ruled by ZOG .
  • At one point, black people are referred to as mudpeople , a derogatory term for black people.
  • The term blood in the face refers to a theory that only members of the white master race would have discoloration on the face. This phenomenon cannot be seen in bright-day Jews, for example.
  • A member of the movement claims that it has been scientifically proven that a white woman who has had sexual intercourse with a black person is contaminated and that this black woman would be passed on to her future children with a white person.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blood in the face at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed August 25, 2015