German Doctor
With finely tuned performances all round, Wakolda breaks down the ordinary to reveal both the sublime and the diabolical.
The German Doctor
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor (Alex Brendemühl) meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva (Natalia Oreiro), Enzo (Diego Peretti) and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith (Florencia Bado), to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring THE GERMAN DOCTOR to justice. Based on filmmaker Lucía Puenzo's (XXY) fifth novel, the story follows Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," a German SS officer and physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp, in the years he spent "hiding," along with many other Nazis, in South America following his escape from Germany. Mengele was considered to be one of WWII's most heinous Nazi war criminals.
Genre
Drama,
History,
Thriller/Suspense
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Runtime
94
Language
Spanish,
German,
Hebrew
Director
Lucía Puenzo
Cast
Natalia Oreiro,
Àlex Brendemühl,
Diego Peretti,
Florencia Bado
FEATURED REVIEW
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Josef Mengele, the psycho-butcher-pervert doctor of the Third Reich, escaped Germany and justice altogether by fleeing to South America at the end of World War II. "The German Doctor," directed by Lucia Puenzo, who adapted her own novel, dramatizes a semi-fictional incident during Mengele's stay in ...
Played at
Pasadena
Playhouse 7
Encino
Town Center 5
Santa Monica
Monica Film Center
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