LA AMIGA (1st America Film Festival, 1992)

It is the story of a close and contradictory friendship between two women against the backdrop of the military dictatorship in Argentina. Only Raquel has realized her childhood vow to become an actress. Maria marries an electrician and becomes the mother of three children. When the military took power in 1976, Maria's eldest son Carlos, like countless others, was abducted. In desperation, Maria turns to her now prominent friend, who joins her in the search for her son until she herself is threatened. Raquel leaves the country and goes to Berlin, the city her parents had to leave after Hitler's seizure of power. Maria, meanwhile, joins the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of Argentine women, all in search of their displaced relatives. When the friends meet again, both have changed greatly. Raquel returns to Buenos Aires after the military dictatorship in 1983. She has become anxious, trying to fit in and forget. She wants her friend to stop demanding, to realize that Carlos is dead. But Maria insists: her son is not dead, he has "disappeared." Nothing should be forgotten, so that nothing repeats itself. (meerapfel.de)