The Girlfriend (film)

The Girlfriend Spanish La Amiga is a 1988 ArgentineGerman historical drama film directed by Jeanine Meerapfel and starring Liv Ullman, Cipe Lincovsky and Federico Luppi. It was written by Osvaldo Bayer, Alcides Chiesa, Jeanine Meerapfel and Agnieszka Holland. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Married to the theatre, in which she became prominent, Raquels career has been protected from antiSemitic attacks by her lover Diego Victor Laplace, an influential public television executive who skillfully maintains a balance between his love for the opinionated Raquel and the need to placate the repressive mindset prevalent in that eras last civilmilitary dictatorship 19761983.Maras relentless search for her son strains her relationship with both her husband and Raquel, who give up hope after lengthy and costly attempts to find him. Raquels own Jewish identity and fondness for roles discouraged by the dictatorship such as Antigone cause her serious problems, as well, and lead to her exile in Berlin. Mara, who had always led a quiet life, earns the growing respect of her fellow Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, women from all walks of life united by their search for their detained sons and daughters most of whom were known by the dictatorship to be uninvolved in political violence. ........

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