Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in love with a monster. It is the stor…

- Lucia Puenzo

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

- Lucia Puenzo

I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up.

- Lucia Puenzo

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

- Lucia Puenzo

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

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

- Lucia Puenzo

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

- 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 what is goi…

- Lucia Puenzo

In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him because none us became…

- Lucia Puenzo