The German Friend

Overview

It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a friendship with her next-door neighbour Friedrich over the whereabouts of her family dog. She is the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants to Argentina, he is the son of a senior SS officer, a tragic political legacy from whose shadow both characters struggle to escape over the next three decades. Following the teenaged Friedrich to Germany, Sulamit finds him caught up in the radical politics of late-1960s student life; and she’s forced to make important decisions about her attitude to her homeland when Friedrich returns to Argentina to join the fight against the military junta.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 18, 2012

Original language

Spanish

Spoken languages

German, Spanish

Countries

Argentina, Germany

Production

WDR,Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion (GFF),Malena Films GmbH,Geißendörfer Film-und Fernsehproduktion

Cast

Sebastián Mogordoy,Daniel Fanego,Celeste Cid,Katja Alemann,Fernán Mirás,Hartmut Becker,Max Riemelt,Joaquín Berthold,Nicolas Torcanowsky,Benjamin Sadlerand 7 more

Director

Jeanine Meerapfel

Writer

Jeanine Meerapfel

Producer

Ricardo Freixa,Jeanine Meerapfel

Cinematography

Víctor González

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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