The Official Story
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Luis Puenzo |
| Produced by | Marcelo Piñeyro |
| Written by |
Aída Bortnik Luis Puenzo |
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| Music by |
Atilio Stampone Song: María Elena Walsh |
| Cinematography | Félix Monti |
| Edited by | Juan Carlos Macías |
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Production
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Historias Cinematograficas Cinemania
Progress Communications |
| Distributed by | Almi Pictures Koch Lorber Films |
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Release date
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Running time
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112 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
The Official Story (Spanish: La historia oficial) is a 1985 Argentine drama historical 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.
The film deals with the story of an upper middle class couple who lives in Buenos Aires with an illegally adopted child. The mother comes to realize that her daughter may be the child of a desaparecido, a victim of the forced disappearances that occurred during Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983), which was marred by widespread human rights violations and a genocide.
Among several other international awards, it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards.
The film is set in Argentina in the 1980s, in the last years 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.
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