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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 ...
Summer of My German Soldier is a 1978 American television film based on the 1973 novel of the same name written by Bette Greene. Set during World War II, it stars Kristy McNichol as a Jewish-American girl and Bruce Davison as the German prisoner of war whom she befriends.
SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER. Directed by. Michael Tuchner. United States, 1978. Drama, Romance, TV Movie. 100. Synopsis. A young American girl meets a German prisoner ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Bette Greene’s first book, “Summer of My German Soldier”, won the first “Golden Kite” award. This same novel outsold Prince Charles’ book in his own country. Bette Greene holds the honor of being the only author included in “Writers of Holocaust Literature”, without having been a victim of the Holocaust.As a 21st century master ...
Mar 27, 2024 · Bette Greene ’s Summer of My German Soldier is a novel and a television movie set in eastern Arkansas during World War II. Both portray the Arkansas location, era, and characters realistically. Since the novel’s publication in 1973, it has remained a young-adult best-seller and is considered a classic of young-adult literature.
63. NR 1 hr 40 min Mar 1st, 1986 TV Movie, Drama. 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 ...
Written by Callie Labrador. Patty Bergen is twelve years old and school is out for the summer in her small Arkansas town where nothing much ever happens - that is, until this summer, when a prison camp for German prisoners of war captured during World War Two is opened and the first prisoners arrive. The town is briefly fascinated by them, but ...
