The German Doctor 2013

6.8/10


IMDB Rating : 6.8


FD Smart Rating : 6.8


Synopsis : When a young family opens a lakeside lodge in Patagonia, they have no idea that their first guest will be a Nazi war criminal.


Regions Available ( 2 ) :
Argentina , Mexico

Creators:

Lucia Puenzo

Languages:

European Spanish

Subtitles:

Spanish

Genres:

Drama, History, Thriller

Release Date:

2013

Run Time:

1h33m

Maturity Rating:

Parents strongly cautioned. May be inappropriate for children under 13.

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.