La historia oficial (1985)

Directors

Luis Puenzo

Cast

Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana, Guillermo Battaglia, Chela Ruíz, Patricio Contreras, María Luisa Robledo, Aníbal Morixe, Jorge Petraglia, Analia Castro, Daniel Lago, Augusto Larreta, Laura Palmucci, Leal Rey, Floria Bloise, Lidia Catalano, Carlos Weber, José María López, Andrea Tenuta, Deborah Kors, Susana Behocaray, Cecilia Blanche, Angelica Bogué, Zulema Caldas, Eduardo Camacho, Paula Canals, Jorge Chernov, Diego Cosín, Alicia Dolinski, Horacio Erman, Mónica Escudero, Oscar Ferrigno, Luis Gianneo, Eduardo Gondell, Gabriel González, Ricardo Hamlin, Fernando Hoffman, Amparo Ibarlucia, Virginia Innocenti, Tony Middleton, Luisa Onetto, Fabian Pandolfi, Gastón Presas, Pablo Rago, Fabián Rendo, Maximiliano Reussi, Adrian Schiavelli, Jorge Sorvik, Silvia Suárez, Beatriz Thibaudin, Gustavo Tieffenberg, Marcos Woinsky, Horacio Yervé

The story

The film is set in Argentina in 1983, in the final year of the country's last military dictatorship, during which a campaign of state-sponsored terrorism produced thousands of killings and torture of accused political leftists and innocents alike, who were buried in unmarked graves or became desaparecidos. Alicia Maquet, a high school history teacher, and her husband, Roberto Ibañez, a government official, live in Buenos Aires with their 5-year-old adopted daughter, Gaby. Alicia, like other members of the Argentine upper-middle class, is not aware of how much killing and suffering has gone on in the country, and naively believes only…

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