Juan José Campanella achieved worldwide fame with the release of this 2009 Argentine-Spanish crime drama  based on what novel
Juan José Campanella Juan José Campanella (born July 19, 1959) is an Argentine television and film director, writer and producer. He is a prominent figure of cinema in his country, and achieved worldwide fame with the release of "The Secret in Their Eyes" (2009).
The Spanish Gardener The Spanish Gardener is a 1950 novel by A. J. Cronin which tells the story of an American consul, Harrington Brande, who is posted to San Jorge on the Costa Brava, Spain with his young son Nicholas. The novel relates how Nicholas's innocent love for his father is destroyed by the latter's jealousy and vindictiveness when Nicholas forms a friendship with the young Spanish gardener, José Santero.