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Overview

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6.3/10   845 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Yoram Kaniuk (novel)
Noah Stollman (screenplay)
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Release Date:
12 December 2008 (USA) more
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Tagline:
In a world gone mad, being insane was just a way to fit in. more
Plot:
In the aftermath of WWII, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors. full summary | add synopsis
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Good Movie, Good Performance more (18 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jeff Goldblum ... Adam Stein

Willem Dafoe ... Commandant Klein

Derek Jacobi ... Dr. Nathan Gross

Ayelet Zurer ... Gina Grey
Hana Laszlo ... Rachel Shwester
Joachim Król ... Abe Wolfowitz
Jenya Dodina ... Gretchen Stein (as Evgenia Dodina)
Tudor Rapiteanu ... David
Veronica Ferres ... Frau Fogel
Idan Alterman ... Arthur

Juliane Köhler ... Ruth Edelson
Dror Keren ... Dr. Uri Slonim
Shmuel Edelman ... Dr. Shapiro (as Schmuel Edelman)
Yoram Toledano ... Tarshish (as Yoram Tolledano)
Mickey Leon ... Golomb
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Adam Ben Kelev (Israel: Hebrew title)
Ein Leben für ein Leben - Adam Resurrected (Germany)
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MPAA:
Rated R for some disturbing behavior, sexuality, nudity and some language.
Runtime:
106 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R | Portugal:M/16 (Qualidade)

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Moni Moshonov was cast as Arthur but had to drop due to schedule conflict and was replaced by comedian-actor Idan Alterman. more
Quotes:
Adam Stein: I live in a lovely valley, but the heights are gone forever. There are no more frightful deserts, and I no longer leap into the fire, I am afraid I will get burned. Sanity is pleasant and calm, but there is no greatness, no true joy, nor the awful sorrow that slashes the heart. more

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21 out of 29 people found the following comment useful.
Good Movie, Good Performance, 14 March 2009
10/10
Author: marksalerno1982 from United States

Jeff Goldlum does the best "Jeff Goldblum" in the business. If you hire him to do a "Jeff Goldblum" performance, it's like money in the bank. But _Adam Resurrected_ is not that. Goldblum's Adam is a nuanced, unpredictable and intelligent piece of work, the best of his career thus far. Indeed, the film as a whole represents a welcome return to adult themes and emotions. Sorrow, loss, power, human dignity, and human degradation are but some of the themes at work in Schrader's movie. Happily, we are not handed a tidy resolution (with the requisite "redemption" at the end), but a deep sense that life is a complicated, conflicted and layered experience. See this film when and if you get tired of CGI effects, Ben Stiller fart jokes and "the genius of Seth Rogen."

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