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Adam Resurrected (Hebrew: אדם בן כלב, romanized: Adam Ben Kelev, ‹See Tfd› German: Ein Leben für ein Leben: "Life for Life") is a 2008 American-German-Israeli drama film directed by Paul Schrader and written by Noah Stollman based on a 1969 novel of the same name (he:אדם בן כלב) by Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk.
Feb 16, 2012 · Based on Israeli novelist Yoram Kaniuk's 1968 best-seller, Adam Resurrected, it is a kind of post-Holocaust One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with a little Catch 22 and some magical realism...
- Simon Round
Dec 12, 2008 · That is where the real story lies, and that is precisely what the movie refuses to reveal. Willem Dafoe (left) as the Nazi commandant who ‘adopts’ Adam
Mar 24, 2022 · A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam Stein is now the ringleader at an asylum in the Negev desert populated solely by Holocaust survivors.
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Plot: What's the story about? The story focuses on a former Nazi collaborator who later becomes the head of an asylum.
- Paul Schrader
- Derek Jacobi
Sep 8, 2008 · Based on Yoram Kaniuk’s highly imaginative though controversial Holocaust novel, the story has echoes of “Catch-22” crossed with “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and the film “King ...
Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum) is a revelation as a charismatic Berlin circus impresario who survived the camps by acting as a pet ‘dog’ to SS Commandant Klein (Wilem Dafoe). By 1961 Adam rules the roost as a patient at a stark psychiatric institute in the Negev Desert, run by Dr. Gross (Sir Derek Jacobi) and the sternly seductive Nurse Gina ...
