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Abraham's Gold

Apr 26, 1990 · 1h 35m
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Drama

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In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of, comes back to bond with her daughter, whom he's been raising. Meanwhile, he and his drinking buddy, a beer-truck driver, go on a jaunt to Poland to recover some gold fillings he had hidden years ago during the time when he worked in a concentration camp. The truck driver inadvertently leaves a filling lying around at home, and his mother immediately recognizes it for what it is. When she confronts him, he claims that "Jews don't mean anything to me" and she must then reveal his Jewish heritage to him: she was a housekeeper in a Jewish household and he was a child there whom she adopted during the Holocaust in order to save his life. The driver then confronts the wily old Nazi, who conceives a brutal scheme which will save his cozy life at the expense of the reputations of the driver and his granddaughter.

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Hanna Schygulla
Barbara 'Bärbel' Hunzinger
Günther Maria Halmer
Karl Lechner
Maria Singer
Lechnerin
Karl Friedrich
Probst, Bürgermeister
Otto Tausig
Pfarrer
Christiane Blumhoff
Köchin
Sepp Schauer
Polizist
Johanna Bittenbinder
Verkäuferin
Directed by Jörg Graser

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