Drama · History
Argentine (La historia oficial)
1985 · Directed by Luis Puenzo · 112 min
Buenos Aires, 1983. The military dictatorship is losing its grip, and Alicia, a respectable high school history teacher, lives a comfortable life with her husband and young daughter. Small questions begin to unsettle the version of the past she has always taught and trusted.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of Argentina's return to democracy, it turned the aftermath of state terror into accessible drama and helped open international conversation about the disappeared.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a story about how a person who believes in a tidy version of history learns to look at what she has not looked at.
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