Adam Resurrected

From one of the most acclaimed books in Israeli history comes ADAM RESURRECTED, a moving story about the rediscovery of life in the aftermath of war. Adapted from the novel that has been called Israel’s Catch-22 for its dark comedy and fierce intensity, the film is a provocative tale of friendship and redemption, irreverence and grief, humans and dogs . . . and the quest for sanity in a world that seems to have gone mad.

At the center of the story is Adam Stein (JEFF GOLDBLUM), once a popular German cabaret star who now, in the early 1960s, is living in a very different kind of three-ring circus: an experimental insane asylum in the Negev Desert in Israel. Brilliant, manipulative, exquisitely talented and exuberantly free-spirited, Adam outsmarts his doctor (Golden Globe nominee DEREK JACOBI), rebelliously leads his fellow patients, philanders with the institution’s ravishing nurse (award-winning Israeli actress AYELET ZURER) and resists all attempts at a cure.

But when Adam encounters a young boy who has been locked in the asylum because he believes he is a dog, it sparks powerful memories of the events that shattered Adam more than 15 years before, when his own identity was blurred by a Nazi commandant (two-time Academy Award® nominee WILLEM DAFOE).

Can a boy who thinks he’s a dog help a man regain his humanity?

This story of two imaginary dogs in the desert drives ADAM RESURRECTED’s exploration of the profound human capacity for renewal. The film is directed by Paul Schrader (AFFLICTION, AUTO FOCUS) and the screenplay is by award-winning Israeli screenwriter Noah Stollman, based on the 1968 novel by Yoram Kaniuk. The book, controversial yet lauded as one of the great works of international literature, is a searing journey through the post-WWII psyche that illuminates the indistinct lines between freedom and captivity, truth and artifice, tragedy and comedy

A unique Israeli-German co-production, the film is produced by Ehud Bleiberg (THE BAND’S VISIT) and Werner Wirsing (2 DAYS IN PARIS).