The German Doctor

The German Doctor (2013)

PG-13 25 Apr 2014 • Drama, Thriller • 1h 33m
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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 a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp, in the years he spent "hiding", along with many other Nazi's, in South America following his escape from Germany. Mengele was considered to be one of WWII's most heinous Nazi war criminals.

Lucía Puenzo
Director
Lucía Puenzo
Writer
Alex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, Guillermo Pfening
Starring

Language: Spanish, German, Hebrew
Awards: 19 wins & 22 nominations
Country: Argentina, Spain, Norway, France
Metacritic Score: 62
DVD Release Date:
Box Office Total: $418,392

6.7

IMDb (7853 votes)
75%
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