This is the best film---if not the best job of acting---Jeff Goldblum has ever done. He plays a Second War World Jewish magician and comedian (Adam Stein) who becomes famous in Germany. When the Nazis take over, he is arrested and put in a concentration camp where a Nazi officer, who previously had seen Stein perform, now treats him like an animal and makes him act like a dog and stay on all fours for years in the concentration camp. The movie has some very heavy scenes of degradation and human suffering, so it is not for the faint of heart. This film makes you wonder how human beings could be so cruel to other human beings, and despite all the pain that Jeff Goldblum's character went through, he helps a young boy who was abused come out of his mental illness. Willem Dafoe.
~Van of Urantia*MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
