A Holocaust Survivor is Suspicious of His New Neighbors in ‘My Neighbor Adolf’ | Trailer

Set in 1960s South America, My Neighbor Adolf stars David Hayman as Polsky, a reclusive Holocaust survivor who is convinced his neighbor, Herzog, played by Udo Kier, is Adolf Hitler in hiding.

Also starring in the movie are Olivia Silhavy, Kineret Peled, Jaime Correa, Tomasz Sobczak, Danharry Colorado Cortes, and Dorian Alexis Zuluaga Seguro.

Directed by Leon Prudovsky, My Neighbor Adolf premiered at the 75th Locarno Film Festival and was released in Israel in 2023. It opens in the U.S. starting at the Quad Cinemas in New York on December 19th.

Colombia, May 1960, just after Israel’s abduction of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Polsky, a lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor, lives in the remote Colombian countryside. He spends his days playing chess and tending his beloved rose bushes. One day, when a mysterious old German man moves in next-door, he suspects that his new neighbor is…Adolf Hitler.

Since nobody believes him, he embarks on a detective mission to find the evidence. But, in order to gather evidence, he will need to be closer to his neighbor than he would like. So close that the two could almost become friends.

“My Neighbor Adolf explores the nature of animosity,” said director Prudovsky in a statement. “What happens if you get to know your worst enemy and start seeing humanity in the object of your sheer hatred? What if you find yourself becoming his friend? Or is hatred stronger than the need for a friend? Is there a place for reconciliation?”

Watch the official U.S trailer for My Neighbor Adolf, above.