Adam Resurrected is an American

United States

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-German

Germany

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-Israel

Israel

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i film, directed by Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader

Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and former film critic. Apart from his credentials as a director, Schrader is most notably known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Raging Bull....

 and adapted from Yoram Kaniuk

Yoram Kaniuk

Yoram Kaniuk is an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic.-Biography:Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv. His father, Moshe Kaniuk, born in Ternopil, Galicia , was the first curator of Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His grandfather was a Hebrew teacher who wrote his own textbooks....

's novel of the same name published in Israel in 1968 (the book's original name literally means "Man, son of a dog").

Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum

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 stars as the titular character, alongside Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

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, Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE is an English actor and film director.A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in...

 and Ayelet Zurer

Ayelet Zurer

Ayelet Zorer is an Israeli actress, perhaps best known for her roles in Nina’s Tragedies, Adam Resurrected, Munich, and Angels & Demons....

. Several major German stars, including Moritz Bleibtreu

Moritz Bleibtreu

Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor.Bleibtreu was born in Munich, the son of actors Monica Bleibtreu and Hans Brenner, and the great-grand-nephew of the actress Hedwig Bleibtreu.Bleibtreu grew up in Hamburg...

, Veronica Ferres

Veronica Ferres

Veronica Maria Cäcilia Ferres is a German actress who gained fame as Pierre Richard's co-star in the French TV-movie Sans famille and as the horrible Mme. Thénardier in the 2000 French TV miniseries Les Misérables...

, Juliane Köhler

Juliane Köhler

Juliane Köhler is a German theatre, television, and film actress.Köhler was born in Göttingen to a puppeteer. From 1985-88 she studied under Uta Hagen in New York City and attended the HB acting studio. She also received ballet instruction from Daniela Glück in Munich, Bavaria...

 and Joachim Król

Joachim Król

Joachim Król is a German actor, known for his appearances in the films Run Lola Run, Maybe, Maybe Not and Anne Frank: The Whole Story.-Life and work:...

, play supporting roles.

Plot

The film follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient of a fictitious psychiatric asylum

Psychiatric hospital

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 for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961.

Release

The film was screened at several film festivals, including Telluride

Telluride Film Festival

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, Toronto, Mill Valley

Mill Valley Film Festival

The Mill Valley Film Festival is an annual, non-competitive film festival presented by the California Film Institute. Known as a filmmakers’ festival, the annual Mill Valley Film Festival offers a non-competitive environment for exhibiting independent and world cinema.Founded in 1978 by MVFF...

, AFI

American Film Institute

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, Haifa Film Festival

Haifa

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, Valladolid

Seminci

Valladolid International Film Festival is a film festival held annually in Valladolid, Spain since 1956....

, the Palm Springs International Film Festival

Palm Springs International Film Festival

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and the London Jewish Film Festival. It was released in Germany on January 22, 2009.