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Dafoe is ‘Resurrected’

Two-time Oscar nominated Willem Dafoe may be setting himself up for another Best Suppoting Actor role. Dafoe’s reps have just announced he will be starring opposite Jeff Goldblum in screenwriter-turned-director Paul Schrader’s new film Adam Resurrected.

Eric Lavallée

Published on December 18, 2006

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Based on the dramatic novel by Yoram Kaniuk, Adam Resurrected is the story of a former circus entertainer spared from the gas chamber so he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths. After the war, he becomes the leader at an asylum populated by Holocaust survivors.

Currently wrapping up the Abel Ferrara film, Go Go Tales, Dafoe and crew begin shooting Adam Resurrected this April in Germany, Romania and Israel.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Current top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson).