
In a world gone mad, being insane was just a way to fit in.
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Cast
- Jeff Goldblum
- Willem Dafoe
- Derek Jacobi
- Ayelet Zurer
- Hana Laslo
- Joachim Król
- Evgenia Dodina
- Tudor Rapiteanu
- Veronica Ferres
- Idan Alterman
- Juliane Köhler
- Dror Keren
- Shmuel Edelman
- Yoram Toledano
- Miki Leon
- Moritz Bleibtreu
- Benjamin Jagendorf
- Theodor Danetti
- Gabriel Spahiu
- Luana Stoica
- Coca Bloos
- Ioana Abur
- Ozana Oancea
- Maria Chiran
- Ana Benea
- Cristian Motiu
- George Remes
- Constantin Florescu
- Ion Arcudeanu
- Mohammad Tiregar
- Moti Rozentsvaig
- Ilan Aviv
- Berivan Laura Haj Abdo
- Ana Geoanna
- Amina Abu Shanab
- Hanelore Bauer
- Mihaela Denisa Mallat
- Cristina Anghel
- Ehud Bleiberg
- Alexandra Savu
- Mirela Dranga
- Alexa Paraschiva
- Georgeta Radu
- Maria Dumitru
- Vatafu Alina
- Teodora Bencea
- Alexandra Vasilescu
- Mircea Ilioara
- Biet Gica
- Dan Chiriac
- Marilena Botis
- Mihaela Jaglau
- Giorgiana Voicu
- Luiza Anatal
- Gina Burlacu
- Marian Marinov
- Rodica Marinof
- Diana Poran
- Constantin Rotaru
- Vanda Rotaru
- Lucian Gavriluta
- Eugenia Leau
- Gladiola Lamatic
- Mircea Luculescu
- Laurentiu Grigorescu
- Liviu Popa
- Constantin Urziceanu
- Liana Margineanu
- Vasile Albinet
- Andrei Preorocu
- Lionte Sergiu
- Ionut Mereuta
- Dinu Mereuta
- Vlad Theodor Cacinschi
- Robert Cazan
- Rolf Bitler
- Yakov Broomberg
- Michel Vazana
- Rammy Zrog
- Sam
- Andrei Ciopec
- Yoram Kaniuk
Plots
In the aftermath of World War II, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.
This movie follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Nathan Gross. Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer - cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician - loved by audiences and Nazis alike until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Commandant's "dog", entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die. Years later, we find him at the Institute. One day, Adam smells something, hears a sound. "Who brought a dog in here?" he asks Gross. Gross denies there is a dog, but Adam finds him, a young boy raised in a basement on a chain. Adam and the boy see and recognize each other as dogs, and their journey begins. This movie is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy.
In Berlin, the Jewish Adam Stein is a successful artist that works with his wife and two daughters in a cabaret. During the World War II, Adam and his family are sent to a concentration camp and the cruel Commandant Klein, who was his fan, assigns Adam to become his "dog" to entertain him. Adam has to live like a dog with another dog, Rex, while tries to convince Klein to save his wife and his little daughter that are sent to the ovens. After the war, Adam is sent to a mental institution in Israel for Survivors of the Holocaust under the care of the psychiatric Dr. Nathan Gross and becomes a leader among the patients. He also has a mistress, the nurse Gina Grey, who loves kinky sex. One day, Adam smells a dog in the institute, which is forbidden, and he finds a boy that was raised chained in a basement and behaves like a dog. Adam recalls his period as a dog in the concentration camp and gets close to the dog-like boy and their journey together begins.