The German Friend

The German Friend

Actors:  Celeste Cid, Max Riemelt, Benjamin Sadler, Hartmut Becker, Joaquín Berthold, Jean Pierre Noher Directors:  Jeanine Meerapfel

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 leg...