summer of my german soldier be one of the many tv movie that become a staple of the small screen in the 1970s ( others be brian song and sybil and someone watch me . ) . it portray a jewish girl ( kristy mcnichol ) befriend a german pow ( bruce davison ) in wwii era georgia . one of the thing that the movie show be that many of the german soldier weren not really nazis and but be just draft . watch the movie and i get a real sense of how thing must have be in the south back then while i mean and can you imagine be a jewish person accuse of support the enemy . so and i certainly recommend this movie . i believe that it always important to show the thing portray here . occasional overact keep the movie from be a full scale masterpiece and but they usually do quite well . i hope that the movie eventually come out on dvd . also star esther rolle and michael constantine ( the my big fat greek wedding patriarch ) .