La Amiga

The Girlfriend (Spanish: 'La Amiga') is a 1988 Argentine drama film directed by Jeanine Meerapfel. The film was written by Osvaldo Bayer and Alcides Chiesa and was produced jointly with Germany. The film starred Liv Ullman, Cipe Lincovsky and Federico Luppi. María and Pancho (Liv Ullman and Federico Luppi) are a happily married couple in a quiet, working-class suburb south of Buenos Aires, circa 1978. They share the grief over the disappearance of their eldest son Carlos (Gonzalo Arguimbau), with María's lifelong friend Raquel Kessler (Cipe Lincovsky), a feisty Jewish girl whose cultural identity made her a target to some; but all the more endearing to María, her only gentile childhood friend. "Married" to the theatre, in which she...