Abraham's Gold (Abrahams Gold) 34 years old

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.

Credits

Abraham's Gold Cast

Name Character
Günther Maria Halmer He was 47, now 81 years old as Karl Lechner
Sepp Schauer He was 40, now 75 years old as Polizist
Otto Tausig was 68, 89 years old when died as Pfarrer
Christiane Blumhoff She was 47, now 82 years old as Köchin
Hanna Schygulla She was 46, now 80 years old as Barbara 'Bärbel' Hunzinger
Johanna Bittenbinder She was 32, now 67 years old as Verkäuferin
Maria Singer She was 76, 89 years old when she died as Lechnerin

Abraham's Gold Crew

Name Department
Jörg Graser as Director. He was 38 (now 72) years old Directing
Abraham's Gold (34 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, April 26, 1990