The Official Story (1985)
- Original title
- La historia oficial
- Directed by
- Luis Puenzo
- Genre
- drama film, historical film
- Country
- Argentina
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 207 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An upper middle class couple in Buenos Aires starts to question the origins of their adopted daughter. The wife discovers the girl may be the child of a victim of Argentina's military dictatorship.
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What happens
The Official Story (Spanish: La historia oficial) is a 1985 Argentine historical political drama film directed by Luis Puenzo and written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik. It stars Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe and Hugo Arana. In the United Kingdom, it was released as The Official Version. The film deals with the story of an upper middle class couple who lives in Buenos Aires with an illegally adopted child. The mother comes to realize that her daughter may be the child of a desaparecida, a victim of the forced disappearances that occurred during Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976–1983), which saw widespread human rights violations, including many thousands of murders. Among several other international awards, it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, a first for a Latin American film. The film also won the People's Choice Award at the 10th Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected as the eighth greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida util, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 28 position. Also in 2022, the film was included in Spanish magazine Fotogramas's list of the 20 best Argentine films of all time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Count to Ten (1985)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.