Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists.… — 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… — 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.… — 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… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
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)
