Abraham's Gold (1990)

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 0M

Director : Jörg Graser

Synopsis

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.

Actors

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

Crews

Jörg Graser
Jörg Graser
Director