White Mountain Jewish Film Festival Presents THE GERMAN DOCTOR

Guest Speaker: Dr. Marjorie Agosin Reception Hosted & Sponsored by The Dyer Family Patagonia, 1960 . . . A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long, deserted road to a small town where the family plans to start a new life. Eva, Enzo, and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their teen daughter, Lilith, to his care, unaware that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately searching for this German doctor to bring him to justice. This film was Argentina?s selection for the foreign-language category at the 2014 Academy Awards. Spanish with English subtitles. Director Lucia Puenzo ?? masterfully balances the film?s thriller edge with disturbing details about Mengele?s obsession with genetic experimentation, as well as the community of German expatriates in Argentina helping old Nazis elude arrest.? Tom Keogh, Seattle Times, May 22, 2014 Guest Speaker Marjorie Agosin, daughter of Jewish parents who fled Europe and settled in Chile, is an award-winning Chilean author, poet, and professor. Agosin focuses on social justice, feminism, and remembrance. She is an activist and spokesperson for women?s rights in Third World countries. Her numerous honors and awards for writing and work as a human rights activist include a Jeanette Rankin Award in Human Rights, the Letras de Oro Prize for Poetry, the Latino Literature Prize, and a United Nations Leadership Award for Human Rights. The Chilean government honored her with a Gabriela Mistral Medal for Lifetime achievement. Agosin is the Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin-American studies and a professor of Spanish and Latin-American literature at Wellesley College.