‘My Neighbor Adolf’ Debuts Trailer Ahead of World Premiere at Locarno (Exclusive)

Dark comedy-drama “My Neighbor Adolf,” which will world premiere in Piazza Grande at the Locarno Film Festival, has debuted its trailer.

The film stars David Hayman, Udo Kier and Olivia Silhavy, and is directed by Israeli helmer Leon Prudovsky.

Beta Cinema is handling world sales.The film, which Prudovsky has described as a cross between “Rear Window” and “Grumpy Old Men,” is set in Colombia in May 1960, just after Israel’s abduction of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

Polsky, a lonely 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.

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