The Girlfriend

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The Girlfriend

Release Date: April 13, 1989

Year	:	1989
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Genres	:	Drama
Production Companies	:	Journal-Film Klaus Volkenborn KG, JEMPSA
Director	:	Jeanine Meerapfel
Producers	:	Renée Gundelach, Klaus Volkenborn, Christa Vogel, Jorge Estrada Mora
Writers	:	Agnieszka Holland, Jeanine Meerapfel, Osvaldo Bayer, Alcides Chiesa
RunTime	:	110 mins.

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.