Jorge Polaco
| Jorge Polaco | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 20, 1946 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | February 20, 2014 (aged 67) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Nationality | |
| Occupation |
Filmmaker Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1984-2014 |
Jorge Polaco (20 November 1946 – 20 February 2014) was an Argentine filmmaker whose film En el nombre del hijo won best film at the 1988 Festroia International Film Festival in Setúbal, Portugal.
After directing the short film Margotita (1984) Polaco made his feature film debut with Diapasón (1986), a modern retelling of the Pygmalion myth. It was followed by En el nombre del hijo (1987), a film about a disturbed doll restorer and his possessive mother, for which he won a Golden Dolphin at the Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival in Setubal, Portugal, in 1988. All of his early films star fetish actress Margot Moreyra as the character Margotita.
In 1989 Polaco made his most famous and controversial film, Kindergarten, starring Graciela Borges, Arturo Puig and Luisa Vehil. The film sparked controversy due to its alleged mistreatment of child actors (the protagonist, an eleven-year-old, spends most of his screen-time naked), as well as a number of censored scenes: an adult woman and a child take a bath together, the same woman later on makes suggestive advances on the child, plus the inclusion of an unrelated, explicit oral sex scene. The movie was banned from theaters by the Justice one day short of release and a prolonged trial ensued over eight years, emotionally devastating Polaco and his fellow workers. The film remains unreleased in Argentina. It has gained notoriety as being the first film to be censored following the end of the military dictatorship in 1983.
Polaco remained active nonetheless, filming Siempre es difícil volver a casa (1992), his first major studio production, and La dama regresa (1996), which served as a comeback vehicle for retired actress Isabel Sarli.
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