The German Friend(Movie, 2012)

Name: The German Friend
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 2012
Duration: T01:40:00
Rating: 2.7

Original title: "El amigo alemán" (Spanish/ES)

1h 40min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

The German Friend is a 2012 German-Argentine war romantic drama film directed by Jeanine Meerapfel, and starring Argentine actress Celeste Cid and German actor Max Riemelt. The film premiered on September 18, 2012, at the Argentine GFF (German Film Festival), in Buenos Aires. It tells the story of Sulamit, daughter of Jewish German immigrants, and Friedrich, son of Nazi German immigrants; they meet when teenagers in the Buenos Aires of the 1950s. The big political changes in Germany and the National Reorganization Process in Argentina serve as the background for the film. ()

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About The German Friend

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 countries: Argentina, Germany

Plays in: Buenos Aires, Frankfurt, Patagonia

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

Original language: Spanish (ES)

Spoken languages: German (DE), Spanish (ES)

Translated into 8 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 09/18/2012

Cast: Celeste Cid, Max Riemelt, Hartmut Becker, Benjamin Sadler, Noemí Frenkel, Jean Pierre Noher, Fernán Mirás, Adriana Aizemberg, Daniel Fanego, Cipe Lincovsky, Nathalie Lucia Hahnen, Joaquín Berthold, Carlos Kaspar, Katja Alemann, Sebastián Mogordoy, Nicolás Goldschmidt, Víctor Hugo Carrizo, Eliseo Barrionuevo, Nicolás Torcanowski, Gabriela Daniell, Susana Varela, Nora Zinski, Eduardo Wigutow, Clara Florinda Gerst

Director: Jeanine Meerapfel

Screenwriter: Jeanine Meerapfel

Film Editor: Andrea Wenzler

Director of Photography: Víctor González

Composer: Floros Floridis

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Der deutsche Freund"

"My German Friend"

Keywords: woman director

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