The German Doctor (2013)
- Original title
- Wakolda
- Directed by
- Lucía Puenzo
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Argentina, France, Spain, Norway
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 171 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A family in 1960s Argentina takes in a mysterious German doctor who becomes deeply involved with them. He is actually Josef Mengele, a Nazi war criminal hiding from justice.
tenseominousslow-burnsuspensefulunsettlingthought-provokingdarkhistorical
What happens
The German Doctor (Spanish: Wakolda) is a 2013 historical drama thriller film directed, produced, and written by Lucía Puenzo, based on her own novel Wakolda (2011). The film stars Àlex Brendemühl as Nazi SS officer and physician Josef Mengele, infamous for performing human experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp. It also stars Florencia Bado, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti, Elena Roger, and Guillermo Pfening. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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