The German Friend
El amigo alemán
Release: 2012-09-18
·Runtime: 100m
·★ 5.4
Drama
Romance
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.
Production Countries
Argentina
Germany
Production Companies
Malena Films GmbH
Geißendörfer Film-und Fernsehproduktion
WDR
Cast
Joaquín Berthold
as Polaco
Jean Pierre Noher
as Philipp Löwenstein
Adriana Aizemberg
Cipe Lincovsky
Sebastián Mogordoy
as Enfermero 2
Fernán Mirás
Katja Alemann
Celeste Cid
as Sulamit Löwenstein
Max Riemelt
as Friedrich Burg
Hartmut Becker
as Herr Werner Kunheim
Daniel Fanego
Víctor Hugo Carrizo
Nicolas Torcanowsky
Carlos Kaspar
Benjamin Sadler
as Michael Tendler
