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The Whore and the Whale(Movie, 2004)

Original title: "La puta y la ballena" (Spanish/ES)
2h 2min | Genre: Drama
The Whore and the WhaleRating: 2.7/5 (with 66 votes)
The Whore and the Whale (La puta y la ballena) 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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About The Whore and the Whale

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.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Argentina, Spain
Plays in: Argentina
Made by: Patagonik
Original language: Spanish (ES)
Spoken languages: Spanish (ES)
Translated into 6 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Hungarian (HU), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 04/01/2004
Director: Luis Puenzo
Director of Photography: José Luis Alcaine Escaño
Costume designer: Sonia Grande
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"A Meretriz e a Baleia"
Keywords: tango
Revenue: 150,000 USD

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