Argentina’s official submission for the Academy Awards premieres at Mary D. Fisher Theatre
Sedona AZ (May 19, 2014) – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the award-winning drama “The German Doctor” showing May 23-29 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
“The German Doctor” was Argentina’s official submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also the winner of 9 Sur Awards — Argentina’s version of the Academy Awards — including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and more. It was also a major hit at the Cannes Film Festival where it premiered.
Patagonia, 1960: A German doctor (Alex Brendemühl) meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva (Natalia Oreiro), Enzo (Diego Peretti) and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith (Florencia Bado), to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring the German doctorto justice.
Based on filmmaker Lucía Puenzo’s fifth novel, the story follows Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death,” a German SS officer and a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp, in the years he spent “hiding”, along with many other Nazi’s, in South America following his escape from Germany. Mengele was considered to be one of WWII’s most heinous Nazi war criminals.
Critics and audiences are raving about “The German Doctor”, calling the film “magnificent” and a “crackling good thriller”. Jeffrey Lyons raves “an astonishing, powerful story … makes for a first-rate drama.”
“The German Doctor” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre May 23-29. Showtimes will be 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Friday, May 23; 7 p.m. on Sunday and Monday, May 25 and 26; and 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 29.
Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.
