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The Official story

The official story is the true account of a woman faced with the hardest choice she could make to live a lie, or risk tearing apart her own life and family.

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  • "Historia oficial"
  • "La historia oficial"

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  • "Drama on the Argentine campaign of torture and murder against its own citizens in the 1970s. A businessman's wife is faced with the decision which could tear apart her family."
  • "This first film by Argentine director Luis Puenzo is a subtle commentary on the right-wing terror squads which victimized that country in the 1970s. Five-year-old Gabi has an ideal home in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Her mother, Alicia, is a respected history teacher; her father is a successful businessman whose commercial and social contacts reach the top echelons of the Argentine government. In the aftermath of the Falklands crisis, the life of this family changes and the mystery surrounding Gabi's adoption takes on sinister overtones. Prompted by her friend's personal revelations about detainment and torture and demonstrations by Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo whose children disappeared at the hands of the military, Alicia must confront the atrocities of the junta and her husband's complicity. In the end, Alicia comes to terms with the nagging conviction that Gabi is the child of missing political dissidents. (Does not circulate)."
  • "An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, she begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political prisoner. When she attempts to unearth the truth, her investigation reveals levels of political corruption so abhorrent that the illusions of her past life are irrevocably shattered."
  • "The official story is the true account of a woman faced with the hardest choice she could make to live a lie, or risk tearing apart her own life and family."@en
  • ""Portrait of the life of a history professor and her awakening to the evils perpetrated by her country's government. An Argentine teacher (Norma Aleandro) begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political prisoner. When she attempts to uncover the truth, she discovers levels of political corruption so abhorrent that the illusions of her life are irrevocably shattered"--DVD sleeve."
  • "An intelligent political film about the 'disappeared' in Argentina. Buenos Aires schoolteacher Aleandro (Norma Aleandro, in a rivetting performance) lives in middle-class comfort with her husband and their adopted daughter. But she starts on a moral and political reawakening when she suspects her adopted daughter is the child of a murdered political prisoner."@en
  • "The wife of an Argentine businessman finds herself face to face with terror as she begins to discover that her own daughter, adoped at birth, may have been stolen from a family of "los desaparecidos" (the disappeared ones). Directed by Luis Puenzo, and winner of Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1985. Dubbed English version."@en
  • "Academy Award-winning Argentinian drama set during the time of the military dictatorship of the 1970s. Alicia (Norma Aleandro) is the wife of a successful businessman, who decides to look into the background of her young adopted daughter. While doing so she begins to unravel the hidden history of her country and discovers that her daughter may have been stolen by the authorities from one of the families of 'los desaparecidos', the 'disappeared ones', the people who dared to speak out against their government and were quietly executed. Faced with this terrible knowledge, Alicia must decide whether to continue living a lie, or whether to speak out against the depredations of the fascist government that runs her country."
  • "The wife of a businessman finds herself face to face with terror as she begins to discover that her own daughter, adopted at birth, may have been stolen."
  • "Set in Argentina, the sheltered wife of a wealthy businessman finds herself face to face with a legacy of terror as she begins to discover that her adopted daughter may have been stolen from a family of "los desaparecidos" (the disappeared ones)."

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  • "Academy Award films"
  • "Video recordings"
  • "Feature : Foreign"
  • "History"
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  • "Fiction"
  • "Drama"

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  • "The official story La Historia oficial"
  • "La historia oficial"
  • "The Official story"@en
  • "The Official story"
  • "The official story"
  • "The official story an intelligent political film about the 'disappeared' in Argentina"@en
  • "The official story an intelligent political film about the 'disappeared' in Argentina"
  • "The official story historia oficial"
  • "The official story La historia oficial"

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