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World Cinema - Classic
THE OFFICIAL STORY
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Director: VARIOUSFormat: PAL
Language: ARGENTINIAN / ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Region: All
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: M
DVD Release Date: 15/04/2005
Run Time: 109 mins
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Synopsis
A powerful, intelligent and disturbing political film about the 'disappeared' in Argentina in the 70s and 80s, The Official Story deservedly won the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar in 1986.
Buenos Aires schoolteacher Alicia (Norma Aleandro, in a masterclass performance that won her best actress at the Cannes Film Festival) lives in middle-class comfort with her entrepreneur husband and adopted daughter, and in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. A teacher of pro-government revisionist history – the “official story” - Alicia soon starts on a moral and political reawakening, however, when she suspects that her adopted daughter is the child of a murdered political prisoner. As suppressed feelings and buried truths surface, Alicia is forced to confront the stark reality, not only about political oppression, but the basis of her own relationship.
Buenos Aires schoolteacher Alicia (Norma Aleandro, in a masterclass performance that won her best actress at the Cannes Film Festival) lives in middle-class comfort with her entrepreneur husband and adopted daughter, and in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. A teacher of pro-government revisionist history – the “official story” - Alicia soon starts on a moral and political reawakening, however, when she suspects that her adopted daughter is the child of a murdered political prisoner. As suppressed feelings and buried truths surface, Alicia is forced to confront the stark reality, not only about political oppression, but the basis of her own relationship.
