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Director:

Luis Puenzo

Writers:

Ángeles González Sinde (writer)
Lucía Puenzo (writer)
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Release Date:

1 April 2004 (Argentina) more

Genre:

Drama more

Plot:

A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War... more | add synopsis

Awards:

3 wins & 7 nominations more

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Leonardo Sbaraglia ... Emilio
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón ... Vera
Pep Munné ... Jordi
Mercè Llorens ... Lola
Martín Caloni ... Juanito
Pompeyo Audivert ... El gringo Orestes
Miguel Ángel Solá ... Suárez
Nicolás Tognola ... El Pibe Pedro
Belén Blanco ... Matilde
Natalia Otero ... Prostituta
Carola Reyna ... Meme
Lydia Lamaison ... Matilde
Óscar Guzmán ... Urondo
Eduardo Nutkiewitz ... Ernesto (as Edward Nutkiewicz)
Nina Krakoff ... Prostitute
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The Whore and the Whale (International: English title)
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Runtime:

Argentina:120 min | Spain:122 min | South Korea:127 min

Country:

Argentina | Spain

Language:

Spanish

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital


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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Free to be me, 18 September 2007
8/10
Author: lastliberal from Florida

This was a very beautiful film by writer/director Luis Puenzo, who last blew me away with his film The Official Story.

It was two stories in one, connects by threads that ran from one to the other - the whale, a woman and a man, and chance.

The gorgeous Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (The Machinist, Mouth to Mouth) plays Vera, who is facing cancer and, having her breast removed, is feeling rather hopeless. Chance has her in a hospital be next to an old woman who is connected to events before the Spanish Civil War.

Those events, and the story of Lola (Mercè Llorens), Mathide (Belén Blanco), Suarez (Miguel Ángel Solá), and Emilio (Leonardo Sbaraglia), are told simultaneously and she is drawn into the story by a box of photos and a request to do a new book by her editor.

Her explorations of herself in the face of cancer, and the story of the showgirl turned prostitute, are connected by a whale that appears in both off the shores of Patagonia.

The art, cinematography, costumes, and music are absolutely wonderful and make this an enjoyable experience.

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