28 Jan Holocaust Memorial Day 17th edition Screening

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.