Film

Jews and Money: Investigation of a Myth

2013 · 1h 30m · Documentary

Lewis Cohen’s documentary centers on the Ilan Halimi case.

IMDb

7.0

Filmmaker Lewis Cohen intelligently explores the origins and evolution of the myth of the wealthy Jew. In 2006, Ilan Halimi, a French Jewish salesman is lured to the outskirts of Paris where he is kidnapped and later murdered by criminal gang who had demanded a half-million euro ransom on the assumption that 'all Jews are rich'. Jews & Money is a probe into the myth about Jews, and where and when it took root. Why is the Jew so often cast as the banker or trader, pawnbroker or movie mogul? Of all the medieval moneylenders, why is only Shylock remembered? How did the Rothschilds become the symbols of international capitalism? And why does a simple cell phone salesman get pegged as rich, and die for it?

• Lewis CohenWriter · Director · Producer
• Paul CadieuxProducer

Release date

February 1, 2013

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary