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"...there has never been anything like it in the history of cinema as far as I can remember." - Andrew Sarris
Directed by Paul Schrader
Jeff Goldblum delivers a devastating, high-wire performance as Adam Stein, a one-time headlining cabaret performer in Weimar Germany now recovering in an Israeli sanitarium for Holocaust survivors. Devilishly charming with the staff and the coterie of other patients, Stein conceals a paralyzing shame and guilt. Directing Noah Stollman’s adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk’s novel, Paul Schrader explores the nature of identity and love under extreme duress, when performance becomes an act of survival.
Image Entertainment. Producer: Ehud Bleiberg, Werner Wirsing. Based on the novel by Yoram Kaniuk. Screenwriter: Noah Stollman. Cinematographer: Sebastian Edschmid. Editor: Sandy Saffeels. Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi, Ayelet Zurer, Hanna Laszlo.
35mm, color, 107 min.
Watch the trailer below.
