07/02/2020 - Beta Cinema takes on sales on the English-language film, directed by Leon Prudovsky and produced by Israel's 2-Team Productions and Polish outfit Film Produkcja

Beta Cinema is handling international sales outside Poland and Israel on Leon Prudovsky's My Neighbor Adolf [+see also:
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The English-language film is produced by Haim Mecklberg, Estee Yacov-Mecklberg and Ygal Mograbi of 2-Team Productions (2016 Sundance Grand Jury Award winner Sand Storm), [+see also:
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The new film by Leon Prudovsky (Five Hours from Paris) stars David Hayman (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas [+see also:
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Director Leon Prudovsky comments: "My Neighbor Adolf is a comedy. Because a Holocaust survivor, who believes his new neighbor is Hitler, is comic. Because an old man obsessively conducting an absurd investigation is comic. But then again, the story is more of a tragedy. Because loneliness is tragic… The real dramatic question of the film is not about the new neighbor's true identity, but whether the two lonely old men can overcome their prejudices and suspicions and build a friendship based on their common humanity."

Thorsten Ritter of Beta Cinemas adds: "My Neighbour Adolf is striking that delicate balance between the tragic and the comedic, like Haim and Estee managed so beautifully as producers on our former collaboration, the international hit The Farewell Party [+see also:
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film profile]. We feel it is important to keep telling stories about the Holocaust and survival and the life thereafter, but in doing so you can be edgy and mindful at the same time; this doesn't need to be a contradiction. And we feel international distributors are highly anticipating this movie for that very reason."