The German Friend
2012 · 100 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 511 VOTES · DIR. Jeanine Meerapfel
Overview
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 legacy from whose shadow both characters struggle to escape over the next three decades. Following the teenaged Friedrich to Germany, Sulamit finds him caught up in the radical politics of late-1960s student life; and she’s forced to make important decisions about her attitude to her homeland when Friedrich returns to Argentina to join the fight against the military junta.
Dialogue Timeline — 914 lines
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00:00:38 The German Friend
00:06:12 Take one of those. - No!
00:10:58 Sulamit, my mother.
00:14:12 Christmas and Chanukkah. - Together.
00:17:53 Shouldn't we sit down there?
00:21:19 At my school we couldn't do this.
00:24:22 Well?
00:26:56 And my own position in this.
00:30:11 are really paying for the trip and everything?
00:34:53 I'd love to be like you, so...
00:37:53 I'll show you my room.
00:40:20 Wait!
00:44:41 It's crucial
00:46:41 He's a reactionary pig!
00:52:08 Have you heard anything from Friedrich?
00:55:06 Paco!
00:59:50 You should protest with the German Foreign Office.
01:03:44 You've no idea what it's like here.
01:07:30 I'm nothing like her. She was blond...
01:12:27 What? - Don't you want to see her?
01:16:44 Thanks for coming.
01:20:49 It could have been
01:26:18 Your mother calls him that.
01:32:39 Why only now?