The Official Story 1985

type: Movie

language: Spanish

duration: 110 min

genre: historical

theme: high school

director: Luis Puenzo

Score: 6 / 10

The Official Story 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. In the United Kingdom, it was released as The Official Version.

Plot

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.

Awards

Cast

More details

author	Aída Bortnik Luis Puenzo
award	Academy Award for Best International Feature Film Berlin International Film Festival Cannes Film Festival David di Donatello Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film
contentLocation	Argentina
director	Luis Puenzo
editor	Juan Carlos Macías
genre	drama historical political
keywords	adopted daughter an organization armed forces arrest blackboard bury desaparecidos exile government official grandmothers of the plaza de mayo held captive history teacher kidnap kill last military dictatorship mariano moreno military dictatorship missing child national reorganization process nursery rhyme pregnant daughter rocking chair rule search social justice state-sponsored terrorism suffer telephone call than the
musicBy	Atilio Stampone
nomination	Academy Award for Best International Feature Film Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay International Submission to the Academy Awards
producer	Marcelo Piñeyro
productionCompany	Historias Cinematograficas Cinemania Progress Communications
publisher	Almi Pictures
recordedAt	Buenos Aires
theme	high school independent war