The German Doctor

Parental Rating: PG-13

Contains: Nudity    Adult Content    

Jill's Review

Opens May 16, 2014 in Dallas

Runs 93 minutes

In 1960, a family traveling to the lakefront town of Bariloche in Argentina runs into an unassuming Doctor going by the name Helmut Gregor. They are on the way to re-open the family lodge. He follows them into town and eventually comes to stay at the lodge. Of course, the Doctor in question is Josef Mengele, the former "Angel of Death" from the Auschwitz concentration camp. This is not revealed until the end of the film, but we all know who he is. He begins to take an interest in the couple's young daughter Lilith, who is quite small for her age and often the target of bullies at her school. Before long, he is injecting her with human growth hormones. And the wife is pregnant with twins, another favorite field of study. The suspense builds as he administers to the wife and daughter without the husband's knowledge. As people begin to get suspicious of his comings and goings and the father discovers what has been going on, the good Doctor flees. 

This is an interesting movie. It is a fictionallized version of the aftermath of World War II. It is known that Josef Mengele, along with many other Nazis, hid out in Argentina after the war. He continued his experiments for over 30 years, continuing to outrun the Mossad. It was very creepy to see what he was capable of, even on this small of a scale. One can only imagine the horrors he committed at Auschwitz. It is a very good movie and keeps you riveted, just waiting for the family to figure out what is happening. If you iike foreign films, this is a good one.

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