Luis PuenzoFilmography

Born:: January 1, 1946 in Argentina
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Argentine filmmaker Luis Puenzo is best known internationally for making The Official Story (1985), a provocative portrait of a middle-class woman who gradually realizes that by remaining complacent in the face of social injustice she is as guilty as the government she derides. The film earned an...Read More

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The Fish Child

Crew: Producer

Actors: Inés Efron, Mariela Vitale, Pepe Munne, Arnaldo André, Carlos Bardem

Synopsis: Writer-director Lucía Puenzo follows up her feature debut, the festival favorite XXY, with The Fish Child, a romantic crime drama adapted from her novel of the same name. Lala (Inés Efron, who also starred in XXY) is an Argentinean girl from a wealthy family. She's desperately in love with the Read More

1/1/10
XXY

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ines Flores, Ricardo Darín, Inés Efron, Martin Piroyanski, German Palacios, Carolina Peleritti, Valeria Bertuccelli

Synopsis: Lucia Puenzo's drama XXY probes the psychological aftereffects that adolescent transsexuality can yield. With a name easily applicable to either gender, young teenager Alex's (Ines Efron) hermaphroditic physiology causes a massive identity crisis and severe emotional withdrawal. The problems Read More

5/2/08
La Puta and La Ballena

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Pepe Munne, Merce Llorens, Martín Caloni

2004
La Puta y la Ballena

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Miguel Ángel Solá, Merce Llorens, Pepe Munne

2004
La Peste

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: William Hurt, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marc Barr, Robert Duvall, Raul Julia

Synopsis: Released directly on to video in the U.S., but exhibited on the festival circuit and in Europe, Plague is an adaptation of Albert Camus' novel and reteams filmmaker Luis Puenzo with actors Robert Duvall and William Hurt to tell the story of a South American city that must be cut off from the world Read More

1992
The Old Gringo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras, Jenny Gago, Jim Metzler

Synopsis: In this historical drama based on Carlos Fuentes' novel, Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) is a naive woman who, hoping to broaden her horizons, accepts a job as a governess in Mexico in 1913. However, Harriet unknowingly finds herself thrown into the middle of the Mexican revolution, where she Read More

10/6/89
The Official Story

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chela Ruiz, Chunchuna Villafane, Hugo Arana

Synopsis: This is an emotionally gripping, fictional look at a couple torn apart by the infamous Argentine campaign of killings and torture that sent thousands of accused terrorists to unmarked graves in the mid-and late-'70s. Alicia (Norma Aleandro) and Roberto (Hector Alterio) adopted a little girl (Analia Castro Read More

1985

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