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    The Girlfriend

    The Girlfriend

    1989

    1:50:52

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    The Girlfriend

    Genre

    Drama

    Plot

    Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.

    Director

    Jeanine Meerapfel

    Writers

    Agnieszka Holland, Alcides Chiesa, Osvaldo Bayer, Jeanine Meerapfel,

    Stars

    Liv Ullmann, Cipe Lincovsky, Federico Luppi, Lito Cruz, Víctor Laplace,