The German Friend

5.4 (17 votes)• 2012• 100m•Released

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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.

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Languages: German, Spanish

Director: Jeanine Meerapfel

Starring Cast: Celeste Cid, Max Riemelt, Benjamin Sadler, Hartmut Becker, Joaquín Berthold, Jean Pierre Noher

Cast

Celeste Cid

Sulamit Löwenstein

Max Riemelt

Friedrich Burg

Benjamin Sadler

Michael Tendler

Hartmut Becker

Herr Werner Kunheim

Joaquín Berthold

Polaco

Jean Pierre Noher

Philipp Löwenstein

Sebastián Mogordoy

Enfermero 2

Daniel Fanego

Fernán Mirás

Katja Alemann

Víctor Hugo Carrizo

Nicolás Goldschmidt

Adriana Aizemberg

Nicolas Torcanowsky

Carlos Kaspar

Cipe Lincovsky

Valeria Risi

Helga

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