Lucia Puenzo

Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she…

— Lucia Puenzo

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand…

— Lucia Puenzo

I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time…

— Lucia Puenzo

In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence…

— Lucia Puenzo

Much more than trying to focus on the battlefield of the war, it was the central place that German doctors occupied within…

— Lucia Puenzo

I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in…

— Lucia Puenzo

Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists.…

— Lucia Puenzo

The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is…

— Lucia Puenzo

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

I think that even though The German Doctor (Wakolda) is placed in a historical context , it is a very intimate story.…

— Lucia Puenzo

In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before…

— Lucia Puenzo

When I started writing the script I thought that maybe someone else would direct it, but then I started to fall for…

— Lucia Puenzo