El amigo alemán

Cuenta la historia de amor entre Sulamit, hija de inmigrantes alemanes judíos y Friedrich, hijo de un inmigrante alemán nazi, quienes se conocen durante su adolescencia en Buenos Aires durante los años 50. Su amor transcurre con el telón de fondo de los grandes cambios políticos en la Alemania del 68 y de la dictadura militar en la Argentina.

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.