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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.
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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.

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 is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member 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 served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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