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The Official Story (Spanish: La historia oficial) is a 1985 Argentine historical drama film directed by Luis Puenzo and written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik. It stars Norma Aleandro , Héctor Alterio , Chunchuna Villafañe and Hugo Arana .
Nov 8, 1985 · The Official Story: Directed by Luis Puenzo. With Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana. During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
- (11K)
- Drama, History
- Luis Puenzo
- 1985-11-08
"The Official Story" is part polemic, part thriller, part tragedy. It belongs on the list with films like " Z ," " Missing " and " El Norte ," which examine the human aspects of political unrest. It is a movie that asks some very hard questions.
Alicia Marnet de Ibañez is happily married to her husband Roberto. They have an adopted daughter named Gaby. Alicia is blissfully ignorant about what happened in the military coup until one of her history students asks her if she only believes what the history books say. She embarks on a mission to find if her daughter is the daughter of one ...
Winner of Best Foreign Language Picture at the 1986 Academy Awards, THE OFFICIAL STORY is about an upper middle class couple who lives in Buenos Aires with a...
- 2 min
- 52.3K
- Cohen Film Collection
The Official Story mercifully doesn't fit that mold. Instead, it is a drama that takes place in the aftermath of the most horrific aspects of the event itself, focusing on the human toll, the ...
- (13)
- Drama
THE OFFICIAL STORY. Drama. , Other. Set in Buenos Aires during the final years of Argentina's military dictatorship, Luis Puenzo's Academy Award-winning debut tells the story of the wife of a wealthy businessman who discovers that their adopted child may be the progeny of a desaparecido (a victim of the forced disappearances that occurred ...
