28 Jan Holocaust Memorial Day – 17th Edition

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Memorial Day, 17th Edition in Albania, the Embassy of Israel in Albania and the Academy of Film & Multimedia Marubi had the pleasure to present the screening of the film

“Adaptation to Darkness”

A documentary directed by Shay Fogelman

Israel –  Documentary –  2025 –  85 min
Subtitled in English and in Albanian

A biographical and psychological portrait of Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a man of extraordinary abilities but very little conscience: a brilliant physician and a pioneer of psychiatric research, but also an elusive con artist who became the only Jew in history convicted of Nazi war crimes.

The film traces his journey from a small town in Galicia to a career as a groundbreaking psychiatrist in the US; his exploits as a lover, hypnotist, swindler, a spy between the two world wars, and his actions in the Buchenwald concentration camp, which led him to stand trial as a Nazi war criminal.

Katzen-Ellenbogen’s story is an allegory of how individuals adapt to moral darkness – and the ways they find to thrive and blossom in the darkest of times.