Lucía Puenzo's The German Doctor Selected to Represent Argentina at the Oscars
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Posted September 27, 2013 05:30 PM by Webmaster
Argentina has selected acclaimed director Lucia Puenzo's Wakolda a.k.a The German Doctor to represent it at the 86th Academy Awards. The film stars Natalia Oreiro, Àlex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, and Elena Roger.
Earlier this year, The German Doctor was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for Un Certain Regard Award.
Official 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.
Earlier this year, The German Doctor was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for Un Certain Regard Award.
Official 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.
