The German Doctor

The German Doctor
Theatrical release poster
Wakolda
Directed byLucía Puenzo
Written byLucía Puenzo
Based onWakolda
by Lucía Puenzo
Produced byLucía Puenzo
StarringÀlex Brendemühl
Natalia Oreiro
Diego Peretti
Elena Roger
Guillermo Pfening
Alan Daicz
Florencia Bado
CinematographyNicolás Puenzo
Edited byHugo Primero
Music byDaniel Tarrab
Andrés Goldstein
Distributed byDistribution Company
Release dates
  • 22 May 2013 (2013-05-22) (Cannes)
  • 19 September 2013 (2013-09-19) (Argentina)
Running time
94 minutes
CountriesArgentina
France
Spain
Norway
LanguagesSpanish
German

The German Doctor (Spanish: Wakolda) is a 2013 historical drama thriller film directed, produced, and written by Lucía Puenzo, based on her own novel Wakolda (2011).[1] The film stars Àlex Brendemühl as Nazi SS officer and physician Josef Mengele,[2] infamous for performing human experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp. It also stars Florencia Bado, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti, Elena Roger, and Guillermo Pfening.[3]

  1. ^ Debruge, Peter (29 May 2013). "Cannes Film Review: 'Wakolda'3". Variety.
  2. ^ ""Wakolda", the film about Mengele in Argentina, chosen as Oscar precandidate". Yahoo! News Spain (in Spanish). 27 September 2013. Archived from the original on 30 September 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Cast". Wakolda official website. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2013.