Abraham's Gold

04/26/1990

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1hr 35min

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Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Hanna Schygulla
  • Günther Maria Halmer
  • Maria Singer
  • Karl Friedrich
  • Otto Tausig

    Director

  • Jörg Graser

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Germany

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