The Siege of Ruby Ridge

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Movie
German title The Siege of Ruby Ridge
Original title The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 170 minutes
Rod
Director Roger Young
script Lionel Chetwynd
production Robert F. Phillips
music Patrick Williams
camera Donald M. Morgan
cut Dennis C. Vejar
Benjamin A. Weissman
occupation

The Siege at Ruby Ridge (Original title: The Siege at Ruby Ridge ) is a two-part, television-produced American drama from 1996 . The film tells of the 1992, eleven day siege of the Weaver family's Ruby Ridge estate . Directed by Roger Young and written by Lionel Chetwynd based on the novel Every Knee Shall Bow by Jess Walter .

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The married couple Vicki and Randy Weaver belong to the lower American middle class. Both are strictly religious Protestant Christians who no longer feel comfortable in the society they consider godless. Encouraged by reading extremist literature, they believe they are living in the end times . They see their own pastor and their family as not religious enough and want to withdraw to the country. They pack their things and settle in the woods in Idaho. The children are raised by themselves because they reject state schools. The contact with the family has not broken off, but the Weavers have alienated each other. The couple takes part in secret events organized by right-wing extremists. Different currents meet at the event: the Ku Klux Klan , neo-Nazis, neo-confederates, radical Christians from the middle class and anti-social skinheads. Vicki finds the Nazis strange, but does not protest vigorously either. Randy decides to be more active, his hatred of Jews and blacks is growing and he wants to get more involved in the underground. Vicki, who prefers to wait for Armageddon , advises him to be careful. At the same time, the FBI manages to get an informant into the group. Once he barely escapes an execution by an overly cautious neo-Nazi who suspects him to be an agent. In 1989 Randy was involved in an arms trade with the same agent. He pulls Randy's children into racists and trains them to use weapons. After a neighborhood dispute, the Weavers' children march in the presence of their mother wearing swastika armbands, which illustrates that Vicki has no longer feared contact with racism. Randy's behavior becomes more and more confrontational himself. He endangers an Indian who lives near his home. This makes it unmistakably clear to Randy that he will shoot him if he approaches his house again.

Shortly thereafter, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives show up and tell Weaver that they have evidence against him. He should work for her as an informant, but Weaver refuses in disgust. His wife encourages him not to work for the “Jewish government” under any circumstances. His wife and children decide not to surrender. Vicki writes a letter to the Aryan Nation, declaring that as white Americans from a tribe of Israel, they will fight. Randy is arrested and released on condition that he surrender all weapons. In 1991 the FBI increased the pressure on Weaver's extremist friends. A group of FBI agents enter Randy Weaver's farm, who has an arrest warrant. There is a shootout. Randy's wife, Vicki, and his underage son, Sammy, and several FBI agents are killed. Randy Weaver surrenders a few days later.

Reviews

Film-Dienst wrote that the film was trying todenounce "the fatal consequences of fanaticism and intransigence" .

Awards

Cinematographer Donald M. Morgan was nominated for an Emmy in 1996. The film was in 1996 for the price Artios the Casting Society of America nominated.

Laura Dern and the film in the Best Television Film category were nominated for the 1997 Golden Satellite Award . Kirsten Dunst received the YoungStar Award . Donald M. Morgan won the American Society of Cinematographers Award in 1997 . The cut was nominated for the Eddie of the American Cinema Editors in 1997.

backgrounds

  • The film was in Chico ( California ) and Magalia turned (California). Its world premiere took place on May 19, 1996.
  • The Weavers adore the author Hal Lindsey. His book The Late, Great Planet Earth , a book prophesying the earth's imminent demise, is mentioned.
  • The murder of Alan Berg by The Order (1984) is discussed and welcomed among the protagonists in the film. It is also mentioned that the FBI put agents on the white extremists after the murder.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Siege of Ruby Ridge in the lexicon of international filmTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed October 14, 2008
  2. ^ Filming locations for The Siege at Ruby Ridge , accessed October 14, 2008
  3. ↑ Release dates for The Siege at Ruby Ridge , accessed October 14, 2008