Alex Brendemühl in The German Doctor (2013)

The German Doctor

Original title: Wakolda
Movie2013• PG-13• 1h 33m
DramaThriller
⭐ 6.7 / 10(8,106)

The story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time.

Rated
PG-13
Runtime
1h 33m
Released
2013
Country
Argentina, Spain, Norway, France

Details

Release year: 2013

Storyline

The story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time.

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Did you know

• For her role of Eva, actress Natalia Oreiro studied German language for two months prior to shooting. More than half of her dialogs are in fact in German.

• Lucía Puenzo wrote the book that the movie is based on, she also wrote the screenplay, produced and directed the movie.

• Official submission of Argentina for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 86th Academy Awards in 2014.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $418,392

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $34,259 (2014-04-27)

User reviews

⭐ 8/10

Argentinian family ostensibly "helped" by sadistic Nazi Dr Mengeles

👍 45 · 4/25/2014
⭐ 8/10

Fascinating, emotionally moving movie with solid performances!

👍 91 · 9/14/2013
⭐ 7/10

More Creepy than Scary but still good

👍 21 · 5/3/2014

Technical specs

Sound mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
2.35 : 1
Color
Color
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