Wakolda

Lucía Puenzo : 2013
The German Doctor

In 1959, a German immigrant arrives in Bariloche to coincide with the opening of an inn on the shores of Lake Nahuel Huapi, the most desolate region of Patagonia. There his attention is drawn to Lilith, a girl on the verge of adolescence but with a body too small for her age. A perfect specimen, but for this defect impossible to tolerate. The fascination is mutual. He approaches her parents who own the inn, and will be watched closely by a woman who seems to know his true identity. Based on the director's own novel detailing the true story of an Argentine family who lived with the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the greatest criminals of all time. Lucía Puenzo's third feature premiered in the Un Certain Regard selection at Festival de Cannes 2013.