Adam Resurrected, directed by Paul Schrader, also involves flashbacks, tracing the fictional life of Germany’s greatest clown, Adam Stein (played by Jeff Goldblum), who one night amuses Klein (played by Willem Dafoe). When Klein later becomes a Nazi SS officer, he saves Adam’s life on condition that he will amuse him by playing the role of dog in his office and playing the violin as Stein’s wife, daughter, and others enter a gas chamber. After the war, Adam goes to Israel, where he is committed from time to time to a mental sanatorium of Holocaust survivors, as he occasionally experiences sociopathic violent rage. Based on a 1968 novel by Yoram Kaniuk, Adam is cured of his malady in a most unusual manner. MH