When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so many similar elements with XXY. It was just after I was done writing that I noticed it. I… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Much more than trying to focus on the battlefield of the war, it was the central place that German doctors occupied within Nazism, the… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in film. Some are writers, or directors, or cinematographers, all of them. I'm surrounded by men that make films, so much that at some point I felt there was no more room in the family for another filmmaker.For many… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists. What I… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is completely opposite… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so many similar… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
I think that even though The German Doctor (Wakolda) is placed in a historical context , it is a very intimate story. The film… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
When I started writing the script I thought that maybe someone else would direct it, but then I started to fall for it so… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
![“The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is completely opposite to where Nazism was headed. In the novel [Wakolda], the theme of racial purity and the Nazi obsession with it was much more developed.” quote by Lucia Puenzo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a9/lucia-puenzo-38070_ancient_the-mapuche-are-our-indigenous-people-fr_1294115.jpg)
