The Official Story Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 104 mins
- Year produced:
- 1985
- Director:
- Luis Puenzo
- Cast:
- Hector Alterio
- Norma Aleandro
- Chunchuna Villafane
After a country is forced to live under a brutal and tyrannical regime, the consequences can continue for years. That is the lesson learned by seemingly ordinary mother Alicia in this hard-hitting film from Argentina, set in the mid-1980s. Five years earlier, Alicia and her successful, well-connected husband Roberto adopted a little girl they named Gaby. But it is only now with the former military government having been overthrown that many well-to-do Argentinians are learning of the kinds of horrors that were committed by the army on its political opponents while they looked the other way – and to Alicia’s horror, she realises that her daughter’s real parents might have been activists murdered by the government...
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Fascinating facts
First Argentina's movie Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.
The events portrayed in The Official Story are based on those that took place during Argentina’s “Dirty War” - a campaign of repression in which the military government are estimated to have killed up to 30,000 political opponents.