Jews Fight Back in Trailer for Neo-Western ‘Guns & Moses’ (Exclusive)
Out July 18, the thriller stars Mark Feuerstein, Neal McDonough, Dermot Mulroney and Christopher Lloyd as desperate men thrown together by an antisemitic act.
A controversial new thriller comes amid a wave of antisemitic terror attacks in the United States, including the shooting deaths of two Israeli embassy employees in D.C. last month and the burning of fifteen Jews, some seriously, by a guy in Colorado with a handmade flamethrower.
According to a statement from Salvador Litvak, director of Guns & Moses, “This film is more than a story — it’s a conversation we need to be having.” “The weight of actual lives at stake pervaded every scene on set. There is an attack on Jews. Saying “never again” implies that we must stand up for ourselves. And we are grateful for our allies in this battle. As we approach release, we’re not merely sharing a film; we’re enlisting viewers in a movement for gun safety, cooperation, and accountability.
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Mark Feuerstein, 54; Neal McDonough, 59; Dermot Mulroney, 61; and Christopher Lloyd, 86, are the four seasoned actors who star in the thriller, which has an exclusive cinema release on July 18.
Feuerstein portrays the adored Hasidic rabbi Moses Zaltzman, who serves the small Jewish community in a desert village. A 2019 incident at Chabad of Poway, an Orthodox synagogue in Poway, California, where a 19-year-old shooter entered on the final day of Passover and started shooting, served as the basis for the script. Three others were injured, and a 60-year-old lady was killed.
According to a synopsis, “Police swiftly arrest a young white nationalist who had threatened them in the past after his congregation is violently attacked, but Rabbi Mo believes the troubled teen may be innocent.” “Because no one else is willing to look into it, Rabbi Mo takes on the role of detective. As the bodies accumulate, he has to learn how to shoot in order to fight the real enemy.”
There might be more to the plot than the filmmakers are revealing, despite the trailer’s Charles Bronson-goes-to-Yeshiva vibe. According to the synopsis, “the unexpected bond between the rabbi and an antisemite is at the heart of the film.”