The German Friend (2012)
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.
Director: Jeanine Meerapfel
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Celeste Cid as Sulamit Löwenstein |
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Max Riemelt as Friedrich Burg |
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Benjamin Sadler as Michael Tendler |
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Hartmut Becker as Herr Werner Kunheim |
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Joaquín Berthold as Polaco |
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Jean Pierre Noher as Philipp Löwenstein |
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Sebastián Mogordoy as Enfermero 2 |
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Daniel Fanego as |
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Fernán Mirás as |
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Katja Alemann as |
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Víctor Hugo Carrizo as |
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Nicolás Goldschmidt as |
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Adriana Aizemberg as |
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Nicolas Torcanowsky as |
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Carlos Kaspar as |
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Cipe Lincovsky as |
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Valeria Risi as Helga |
| Directing | Jeanine Meerapfel | Director |
| Production | Ricardo Freixa | Producer |
| Writing | Jeanine Meerapfel | Writer |
| Production | Jeanine Meerapfel | Producer |
| Production | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Co-Producer |
| Editing | Andrea Wenzler | Editor |
| Sound | Floros Floridis | Music |
| Camera | Víctor González | Director of Photography |
| Art | Adrián Suárez | Art Department Assistant |
