A surgeon dissects human worth with scalpels and terror — what could go wrong?
A handsome and successful surgeon, Dr. Dan Adam, sets out to refute a psychologist's thesis that "a man who recognizes his own self-worth will not kill or murder to solve his problems." Dr. Adam begins terrorizing the life of the psychologist and persecutes his wife and daughter.
Acting
Shmulik Kraus weaponizes charm into something deeply wrong.
Direction
Yona Day turns domestic spaces into psychological battlegrounds.
Director
Yona Day
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Israeli horror from the 1970s, when the local industry barely touched genre filmmaking. Kraus was primarily a musician, making his sinister turn even more jarring.
The film's title reduces the protagonist to a biblical first man—suggesting his violence stems from an original, unearned sense of entitlement.
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