The German Friend
18/09/2012
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.
Movie Information
Celeste Cid
as Sulamit Löwenstein
Max Riemelt
as Friedrich Burg
Benjamin Sadler
as Michael Tendler
Hartmut Becker
as Herr Werner Kunheim
Joaquín Berthold
as Polaco
Jean Pierre Noher
as Philipp Löwenstein
Sebastián Mogordoy
as Enfermero 2
Daniel Fanego
as
Fernán Mirás
as
Katja Alemann
as
Víctor Hugo Carrizo
as
Nicolás Goldschmidt
as
Adriana Aizemberg
as
Nicolas Torcanowsky
as
Carlos Kaspar
as
Cipe Lincovsky
as
Valeria Risi
as Helga
