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Director:
Luis Puenzo
Writers:
Aída Bortnik (written by)
Luis Puenzo (written by)
Contact:
View company contact information for The Official Story on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
8 November 1985 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | History | Thriller | War more
Tagline:
Our Moving Story more
Plot:
Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 22 wins & 3 nominations more
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A film of shattering power more (36 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Héctor Alterio ... Roberto
Norma Aleandro ... Alicia
Chunchuna Villafañe ... Ana
Hugo Arana ... Enrique
Guillermo Battaglia ... Jose
Chela Ruíz ... Sara
Patricio Contreras ... Benitez
María Luisa Robledo ... Nata
Aníbal Morixe ... Miller
Jorge Petraglia ... Macci
Analia Castro ... Gaby
Daniel Lago ... Dante
Augusto Larreta ... General
Laura Palmucci ... Rosa
Leal Rey ... Cura
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Official History
The Official Story (USA)
The Official Version
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Runtime:
112 min
Country:
Argentina
Language:
Spanish | English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Argentina more

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Trivia:
First Argentina's movie Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. more
Quotes:
Roberto: Where's Gaby, Alicia?
Alicia: Is terrible, Roberto.
Roberto: What is terrible?
Alicia: Not to know where's your daughter.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007) (TV) more

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37 out of 39 people found the following comment useful.
A film of shattering power, 24 March 2003
Author: Howard Schumann from Vancouver, B.C.

In the powerful 1985 film The Official Story, Director Luis Puenzo tells the story of a teacher's awakening to conscience at the end of Argentina's "Dirty War" of the late 70s and early 80s. As in Pinochet's Chile, the military secret police sought to consolidate their power by routinely torturing and murdering students, political activists, opponents of the regime, and even expectant mothers. Many ended up as desaparecidos, people taken by the government and not returned. The film is about one mother's search for the truth about her adopted daughter and her discovery brings harsh political reality very close to home.

In The Official Story, Alicia (Norma Aleandro) lives a comfortable middle class life. She teaches History to high school students and enjoys a family that includes her well-to-do husband Roberto (Hector Alterio) and 5-year old adopted daughter Gaby (Analia Castro). Not used to asking questions, she believes whatever she has read in history books and is confused when one of her students tells her that "history is written by assassins." She sees the demonstrations of the "Mothers of Plaza de Mayo", a group seeking information about missing family members but remains uninvolved. When her friend Ana (Chunchuna Villafane) visits after living in exile for many years, however, she learns, in an intensely emotional scene, that Ana had been imprisoned and tortured by the police trying to locate her husband, a suspected "subversive".

Ana tells Alicia that many others had "disappeared" and that babies had been taken from their mothers and given to childless friends of the junta. Alicia begins to wonder if her own child was the daughter of a political victim and questions her husband but when he is evasive, she suspects that he may be hiding a dark secret. Although fearful at the prospect of losing Gaby, Alicia is determined to find out about her daughter's past and begins to search hospital records and government archives. Ultimately, she must confront her own responsibility in a climax of shattering force that underscores the tragedy of political ideologues who would rather destroy family solidarity than risk losing power.

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