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

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)

Trailer

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