A new film about a Holocaust survivor who believes his neighbor is Hitler opens in NYC this January

Although any attempt to add even a hint of humor to a subject touching the Holocaust usually makes us wary, the new film My Neighbor Adolf manages to do so without crossing a line.

Directed by Leon Prudovsky and co-written with Dmitry Malinsky, the movie stars David Hayman as Polsky, a lonely, irritable Holocaust survivor living in rural South America in May 1960, who becomes convinced that his new German neighbor, played by Udo Kier, is Adolf Hitler in hiding.

“Since nobody believes him, Polsky embarks on a detective mission to find the evidence,” reads the movie’s official synopsis. “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.”

The film premiered at the 75th Locarno Film Festival in August 2022 and was released in Israel in January 2023. It will reach U.S. audiences this coming January, opening in both Los Angeles and New York on January 9, 2026. In New York, it will screen at Quad Cinema, the four-screen Greenwich Village theater that first opened in 1972. According to an official press release, additional theaters will be announced soon.

Check out the trailer for My Neighbor Adolf below: