The Whore and the Whale (2004)
La puta y la ballena
A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for answers brings Vera to the Argentine Patagonia.
- Date of release
- 2004-04-01
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (21)
- Runtime
- 2h 2m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Luis Puenzo
Casting
- Leonardo Sbaraglia — Emilio
- Aitana Sánchez-Gijón — Vera
- Pep Munné — Jordi
- Mercè Llorens — Lola
- Martín Caloni — Juanito
- Pompeyo Audivert — Orestes
- Miguel Ángel Solá — Suárez
- Nicolás Tognola — El Pibe Pedro
- Belén Blanco — Matilde
- Carola Reyna — Meme
- Edward Nutkiewicz — Ernesto
- Vando Villamil — Dr. Zimmerman
Interesting facts
The Whore and the Whale is a 2004 Hispano-Argentine drama film directed by Luis Puenzo. The film tells the interwoven stories of a Spanish writer whose life goes through various crises and an Argentine photographer who rescued a prostitute from a brothel in the far south of Patagonia but lost her and then died in the Spanish Civil War.
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