My Neighbor Adolf
Synopsis
Colombia, May 1960, just after Israel’s abduction of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Polsky, a lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor, lives in the remote Colombian countryside. He spends his days playing chess and tending his beloved rose bushes. One day, when a mysterious old German man moves in next-door, he suspects that his new neighbor is… Adolf Hitler. Since nobody believes him, he embarks on a detective mission to find
the evidence. But, in order to gather evidence, he will need to be closer to his neighbor than he would like. So close that the two could almost become friends.
Credits
Director(s)
Leon Prudovsky
Producer(s)
Haim Mecklberg, Estee Yacov-Mecklberg, Stanislaw Dziedzic, Klaudia Smieja
Co-Producer(s)
Julieta Biasotti, Diego Conejero, Julio César Gaviria, Juan Pablo Lasserre
Script
Leon Prudovsky, Dmitry Malinsky
Cinematography
Radek Ladczuk
Editor
Hervé Schneid
Original Music
Łukasz Targosz
Cast
David Hayman , Udo Kier, Olivia Silhavy, Kineret Peled, Jaime Correa, Tomasz Sobczak, Danharry Colorado Cortés, Dorian Alexis Zuluaga Seguro
Original Language
English, German, Polish, Spanish, Yiddish
Subtitles
Hebrew, English
Production Companies
2-Team Productions and Film Produkcja in co-production with Vandalo and United King Films
Funded by
The Joshua Rabinovich Tel-Aviv Foundation for the Arts Cinema Project, Polish Film Institute, Comité Promoción Fílmica Colombia
Line Producers
Federico Brizzio
Casting
Heidi Levitt
Production Design
Maria Camila Agudelo
Costume Design
Analia Manouelian
Sound
Carlos Arcila
Festival Highlights
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia, Opening Film, 2022
Locarno International Film Festival, Italy, Official Selection, 2022
International Film Festival of India, , Official Selection, 2022
Haifa International Film Festival, Israel, 2022
Film Festival Hamburg, Germany, Official Selection, 2022
Reviews
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"Udo Kier steals the show in this bittersweet comedy. Building on his acclaimed turns in Bacurau and Swan Song, he deploys his distinctive ice-blue eyes and richly sonorous voice to entertaining and touching effect here"
- Neil Young, Screen Daily
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"An original, intelligent, and surreal comedy… a controversial account of distrust, truth in the news, history and fear of the people around you. With two excellent actors. "
- Gaia Serena Simionati, taxidrivers.it
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"All the ingredients to make a daring film are there, on a razor edge that could make it fall to the side of the plate. However, Leon Prudovsky, and his co-writer Dmitry Malinsky, never fall into the trap of excess and master wonderfully the narrative balance oscillating between drama and situational comedy - with a surprising twist at the end. "
- Malik Berkat, J-Mag
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"Prudovsky feels at home in the comedic genre, and with this film he also taps the full potential of black comedy… it is an universal story of a friendship between two lonely men who discover that they have more in common than they first believe. The fast editing provides a pleasant drive and entertainment."
- Teresa Vena, Kino Zeit
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"A well-told film, with an adequate cast, good cinematography by the award-winning Radek Ladczuk, and careful editing by Hervé Schneid, the editor of 'Amélie.' 'My Neighbor Adolf' deserves, beyond controversy, a warm success."
- Ugo Brusaporco, La Regione
