Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor 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, Enzo and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith, 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 Doctor' to 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 Nazis, in South America following his escape from Germany. Mengele was considered to be one of WWII's most heinous Nazi war criminals.
"A smart and unsettling atmospheric thriller."- San Francisco Chronicle
"An astonishing, powerful story about one of the world's most evil men that makes for first-rate drama." - Jeffrey Lyons
"Disquieting, chilling... a cracking good thriller." - McClatchy Tribune News Service
"A chilling, original tale."- The Hollywood Reporter
"A quiet knockout." - The Washington Post
"Deep tension...and the cast is superb." - Entertainment Weekly
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