PREVIEW: My Neighbor Adolf (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

David Hayman (Bull), Udo Kier (Swan Song), Olivia Silhavy (A Rose in Winter), Danharry Colorado (film debut), Jaime Correa (Rosario Tijeras), Kineret Peled (Zodiac Land), Jan Szugajew (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Leonid Prudovsky (Five Hours from Paris), director, writer; Dmitry Malinsky (film debut), writer; Stanislaw Dziedzic (Mr. Jones), Haim Mecklberg (Next to Her), Klaudia Smieja (Lamb) and Estee Yacov-Mecklberg (The Human Resources Manager), producers; Radek Ladczuk (The Nightingale), cinematographer; Hervé Schneid (Amélie), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Somewhere in the Colombian countryside in 1960, Polsky (Hayman) is a grumpy Holocaust survivor who lives a lonely life. However, when a mysterious old German man named Mr. Herzog (Kier) moves in next door, Polsky slowly becomes convinced that he is, in fact, Adolf Hitler. Unable to get anyone else to believe him, Polsky conducts a covert investigation that involves getting closer with Mr. Herzog…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This darkly comedic thriller explores the uneasy relationship between our neighbours, especially when said neighbour might have been the most despised man in history.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND AVAILABLE TO RENT/BUY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS

 

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