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The German Friend (2012) [N/A]

Release Date:
September 18, 2012

Original Title:
El amigo alemán

Alternate Titles:
Der deutsche Freund
My German Friend

Genres:
Drama | Romance

Production Companies:
Geißendörfer Film-und Fernsehproduktion
Malena Films GmbH
WDR

Production Countries:
Argentina | Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12 

Runtime: 100

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Production

Co-Producer:
Hans W. Geißendörfer

Director:
Jeanine Meerapfel

Director of Photography:
Víctor González

Editor:
Andrea Wenzler

Music:
Floros Floridis

Producer:
Ricardo Freixa
Jeanine Meerapfel

Writer:
Jeanine Meerapfel

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