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12 December 2008 (USA) moreTagline:
In a world gone mad, being insane was just a way to fit in. morePlot:
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 synopsisNewsDesk:
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Jeff Goldblum Discusses Law & Order: Criminal Intent (From MovieWeb. 29 April 2009, 6:51 PM, PDT)
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Adam Resurrected is a Disaster moreCast
(Credited cast)| Jeff Goldblum | ... | Adam Stein | |
| Willem Dafoe | ... | Commandant Klein | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Vasile Albinet | ... | Volk soldier nazi | |
| Idan Alterman | ... | Arthur | |
| Moritz Bleibtreu | ... | Joseph Gracci | |
| Jenya Dodina | ... | Gretchen Stein (as Evgenia Dodina) | |
| Veronica Ferres | ... | Frau Fogel | |
| Derek Jacobi | ... | Dr. Nathan Gross | |
| Benjamin Jagendorf | ... | Rabbi Lichtenstein | |
| Dror Keren | ... | Dr. Uri Slonim | |
| Juliane Köhler | ... | Ruth Edelson | |
| Joachim Król | ... | Abe Wolfowitz | |
| Hana Laszlo | ... | Rachel Shwester | |
| Mickey Leon | ... | Golomb | |
| Cristian Motiu | ... | Volk | |
| Tudor Rapiteanu | ... | David | |
| Gabriel Spahiu | ... | Taub | |
| Yoram Toledano | ... | Tarshish (as Yoram Tolledano) | |
| Ayelet Zurer | ... | Gina Grey | |
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Adam Ben Kelev (Israel: Hebrew title)Ein Leben für ein Leben - Adam Resurrected (Germany)
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Rated R for some disturbing behavior, sexuality, nudity and some language.Parents Guide:
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Canada:106 min (Toronto International Film Festival)Language:
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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. moreFAQ
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I am a huge fan of both dark movies and independent films. When I went to go see Adam Resurrected at the AFI Dallas film festival, I was confident I would love it. Although people had warned me not to go see the film, I simply assumed they couldn't appreciate good film or "art." Boy, was I wrong- I should have taken their advice.
Adam Resurrected is a complete joke. The performances are over-the-top and ridiculous, and the plot is- well- about a man in a mental institution who thinks he is a dog, who happens to mentor a young boy who ALSO thinks he's a dog .
The man had been forced to act like a dog to survive the Holocaust and is now haunted by his "dog" past.
This is not a joke.
Watching Jeff Goldblum walk around on all fours eating dog bones and trying to interpret it as "art" is utterly ridiculous. Watching him change the life of a young boy/dog was even more ridiculous. And of course, the movie is trying to be a "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", for all of the crazy mental patients seem to idolize Goldblum. The mental patients give unbelievably over-the-top performances, and the sex scenes involving Goldblum and the nurse (I will never forget his line when she gets on all fours for him and barks- "Less like a shnauzer, more like a wolf!") are truly horrendous.
This movie is pretentious and trying to be profound, yet it is actually a complete joke. It is incredibly disrespectful to any Holocaust survivors to portray a man forced to bark like a dog for a Nazi general as one of the hardships the Jews faced.
DON'T SEE THIS FILM.