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Summer of My German Soldier (1978)
Directed by Michael Tuchner
Overview
Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can’t seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war camp. A young German soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret place in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him, she ends up harboring him from his captors and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking by helping him, but in his company, she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come.
Length 100 minutes
Actors
Kristy McNichol | Bruce Davison | Esther Rolle | Michael Constantine | Barbara Barrie | James Noble | Robyn Lively | Margaret Hall | Anne Haney | Sonny Shroyer | Jane Hickey | Mary Nell Santacroce | Roy Morris | William Ovell | J. Don Ferguson | Charles B. Jenkins | Richard Mitchem | G. W. Bailey | Harry Epstein | Isaac Goodfriend