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Running time. 112 minutes. Country. Argentina. Language. Spanish. 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.
May 15, 2015 · This evening, Cannes Classics presents a masterpiece by Argentinian director Luis Puenzo : La Historia Oficial (The Official Story, 1985), starring Hector Alterio and Norma Aleandro in a film that focuses on the adoption of children in Argentina under the dictatorship. Luis Puenzo looks back on the feature film that won him the Oscar for Best ...
Jul 5, 2019 · Luis Puenzo’s La historia oficial (The Official Story) (1985), the second in this monthly season of Argentinian films especially selected for the Cinema Museum by Adam Feinstein – who is writing a book on the country’s cinema – won Latin America’s first-ever Oscar for foreign-language film, and it is easy to see why. The central theme of this potent and poignant movie is Argentinian ...
May 22, 2013 · La Historia Oficial or The Official Story (released in the UK as The Official Version) is a 1985 film directed by Luis Puenzo which is framed from the perspective of Alicia Ibáñez, a married, well-to-do woman who works as a history teacher and whose naïve ignorance manifests in class as she rigidly tows the line with textbooks issued by the authorities, refusing to countenance any views ...
ment through melodrama. Luis Puenzo, director and . co-screenwriter, wrote the screenplay in secret, and had . plans to shoot his film clandestinely had the junta not . ended. The film tracks the story of a schoolteacher, Alicia (played by Norma Aleandro), who . begins to suspect that her adopted daughter, Gaby (Analia Castro), is the child of ...
When Sara (Chela Ruiz), one of the three women, presents to her convincing evidence that Gaby is actually her own granddaughter, Alicia confronts her husband in Sara's presence. Alicia has come to believe that Roberto--an admitted rightist--was duplicitous but he ridicules them both and, after Sara leaves, becomes enraged with his wife ...
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Luis Puenzo in 2016. Born. (1946-02-19) 19 February 1946 (age 78) Buenos Aires, Argentina. Occupation (s) Film Director, producer, writer. Luis Adalberto Puenzo (born 19 February 1946) is an Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has also worked in the United States.
