In fact, it is the product of an orchestrated drive that began five years ago in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in the office of a little-known lawyer, David Yerushalmi, a 56-year-old HasidicJew with a history of controversial statements about race, immigration and Islam.
The cast is honored by the presence of Benicio Del Toro, first seen in the garb of a HasidicJew, and especially by Brad Pitt, who plays what is rumored to be an Irish Gypsy, although no one, least of all the other characters, can decipher what he has to say.