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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.
- Highgate Pictures
- Stanley Myers
Recently viewed. Summer of My German Soldier: Directed by Michael Tuchner. With Kristy McNichol, Bruce Davison, Esther Rolle, Michael Constantine. A young American girl meets a German prisoner of war.
A bittersweet story of a teenage Jewish girl who falls in love with an escaped Nazi prisoner of war in a small Georgia town during World War II. Esther Rolle won the Emmy as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special for her performance in this film which also was nominated as...
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The story focuses on Patty Bergen, a lonely Jewish girl (played by Kristy McNichol) in the American South who secretly befriends an escaped German prisoner of war during the 1940s. Their doomed relationship, and the reaction to it, says much about bigotry, forgiveness, and perseverance.
- Michael Tuchner
- Highgate Pictures, NBC Productions
1978; 1 hr 38 mins Drama NR Watchlist; Story about the relationship between a Jewish girl (Kristy McNichol) and an escaped German POW (Bruce Davison) in World War II Georgia.
- 3 min
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.
