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Mara Luisa Bemberg was an Argentine film writer, director and actress, one of the first Latin American women film directors with a powerful presence in the intellectual Argentina of 19701990. In her work, she specialized in portraying famous South American women and the Argentine upper class. Bemberg also focused on feminism, with regard to the gender debate and cinematic gaze. Bemberg is arguably Latin Americas foremost female director.

The daughter of Otto Eduardo Bemberg and Sofa Bengolea, she was born into one of the most powerful families in Argentina, as her greatgrandfather, German Argentine immigrant Otto Bemberg, had founded the Quilmes Brewery, the countrys largest, in 1888. Bemberg grew up in a patrician family.

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