Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected אדם בן כלב Ein Leben für ein Leben
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Paul Schrader
Screenplay by	Noah Stollman
Based on	the novel by Yoram Kaniuk
Produced by	Ehud Bleiberg Werner Wirsing
Starring	Jeff Goldblum Willem Dafoe Derek Jacobi Ayelet Zurer
Cinematography	Sebastian Edschmid
Edited by	Sandy Saffeels
Music by	Gabriel Yared
Production companies	Bleiberg Entertainment 3L Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Image Entertainment (United States) 3L Filmverleih (Germany) United King Films [he] (Israel)[1]
Release dates	December 12, 2008 (2008-12-12) (United States) February 19, 2009 (2009-02-19) (Germany)
Running time	106 min
Countries	Germany United States Israel
Languages	English German

Adam Resurrected (other titles: Hebrew: אדם בן כלב, romanized: Adam Ben Kelev, German: Ein Leben für ein Leben: "Life for Life") is a 2008 American-German-Israeli drama film directed by Paul Schrader and written by Noah Stollman based on a 1969 novel of the same name by Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk. The Hebrew title literally translates to Adam, Son of a Dog.^[a]

The film tells the story of a Jewish man who, before the Holocaust, was considered Germany's greatest entertainer. He is forced by a concentration camp commander to live like a dog and entertain those condemned to death. After the war, in the early 1960s, he is hospitalized in a psychiatric institution for Holocaust survivors in the Judean Desert.

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