THE GERMAN DOCTOR
by Lucía Puenzo
synopsis
Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodging house by the Nahuel Huapi lake. This model family reawakens his obsession with purity and perfection, in particular Lilith, a 12 year-old with a body too small for her age. Unaware of his true identity, they accept him as their first guest. They are all gradually won over by this charismatic man, by his elegant manners, his scientific knowledge and his money — until they discover they are living with one of the biggest criminals of all times.
international title: | The German Doctor |
original title: | Wakolda |
country: | Argentina, Spain, France, Germany, Norway |
sales agent: | Pyramide International |
year: | 2013 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Lucía Puenzo |
film run: | 90' |
release date: | ES 11/10/2013, FR 06/11/2013, CH 08/01/2014, HU 30/01/2014, PL 14/02/2014, GR 27/03/2014, IT 08/05/2014, RO 20/06/2014, UK 29/08/2014 |
screenplay: | Lucía Puenzo |
cast: | Natalia Oreiro, Àlex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, Elena Roger, Guillermo Pfening, Ana Pauls, Alan Daicz, Abril Braunstein |
cinematography by: | Nicolás Puenzo |
film editing: | Hugo Primero |
art director: | Marcelo Chaves |
music: | Andrés Goldstein |
producer: | Lucía Puenzo, José María Morales, Fabienne Vonier, Gudny Hummelvoll |
production: | Wanda Visión, Pyramide Productions, Hummelfilm AS, Historias Cinematograficas Cinemania/Argentina |
distributor: | Pyramide Distribution, Academy Two, Wanda Visión |