ABOUT THE FILM

LOGLINE

An animated film about the biggest lie ever told: Jews are plotting to take over the world. Behind the torch-bearing chants of “Jews will not replace us” is an age-old myth. As we follow this myth from the fringe to the mainstream, three Jewish families are made into scapegoats, their names forever linked to the notion that Jews are a monolithic group set on world domination.

LONG SYNOPSIS

The Conspiracy begins with a man in front of a wall of computers. As he descends down an internet rabbit hole, a chorus of voices coalesces around one idea: there is a secret group controlling the world, and that group is an international network of Jews.

Narrated by Mayim Bialik and directed by Maxim Pozdorovkin, THE CONSPIRACY is an animated documentary that shows how a centuries-old myth has moved from the fringe to the mainstream, becoming a pillar of modern anti-Semitism. To tell this story, the film uses the first-hand accounts of three prominent Jewish families. We follow the Dreyfuses, Warburgs, and Bronsteins as the conspiracy develops and the lives of these families are woven further into its net. Alternating between the stories of a French soldier, a German banker, and a Russian revolutionary, the film spans centuries to show the recurrence of the same conspiracy theory.

This conspiracy that ravages the lives of our characters is set against the backdrop of a larger story about the Jewish people. From Simonini’s letter blaming the French Revolution on a Jewish conspiracy to the poisonous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, conmen and forgers spin an elaborate web of lies blaming Jews for the ills of the world. Disaffected citizens conjure up alternative explanations for democratic progress, and delusional nationalists pin the failures of their country on Jewish residents. Antisemites attempt to justify their hate with pseudo-scientific race theory. All the way up to the present day.

The Conspiracy ends by returning to Robert Bowers in his Pittsburgh apartment. Convinced that an aid society, with ties to the Warburg family, is conspiring to replace the white race by bringing in refugees, Bowers commits mass murder at the Tree of Life Synagogue.

Director and writer Maxim Pozdorovkin
Director of Animation Dasha Bough

Producers Joe Bender, Dan Cogan, Caroline Hirsch, Allison Stern

Executive Producers Liz Garbus, Jon Bardin, Mala Chapple

Associate Producer Brienna Carter

Editor Matvey Kulakov

Cinematographer Joe Bender

Music Frank London
casting David Caparelliotis

Cast Liev Schreiber, Jason Alexander, Ben Shenkman, Lake Bell, Marin Hinkle, Lilli Kay, Peter Jacobson, Narrated by Mayim Bialik

FESTIVALS
2022: DOC NYC (World Premiere, Closing Night)

AVAILABLE TERRITORIES
The World

EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, Digital Download