Is La historia oficial a true story?
The film is based on the real political events that took place in Argentina after Jorge Rafael Videla’s reactionary military junta assumed power on March 24, 1976.
What is the movie La historia oficial about?
This Argentine drama focuses on Alicia (Norma Aleandro), a high school history teacher who is leading a comfortable life with her husband, Roberto (Héctor Alterio), a businessman with ties to the military, and their adopted daughter. When Alicia begins to wonder about the identity of the little girl’s birth parents, she finds herself suspecting that her daughter may be the child of people abducted or killed by the government’s brutal crackdown on leftist groups.The Official Story / Film synopsis
How does La historia oficial start?
In the beginning, she sings the song “En el país que no recuerdo” (“In the Country I Can’t Remember”) as she bathes. It is a mundane scene in which Alicia and the maid Rosa (Laura Palmucci) hurriedly prepare the young girl for bed, as her father has yet to return from work.
Who wrote La historia oficial?
Luis Puenzo
Aída Bortnik
The Official Story/Screenplay
Who Is Benitez in the official story?
Patricio Contreras
The Official Story (1985) – Patricio Contreras as Benitez – IMDb.
What is the significance of the title La historia oficial?
The movie title considers the double- meaning of the word historia in Spanish, which could be translated as “history” and/or “story” in English. The movie takes place in Argentina in 1983, immediately after the Dirty War that results in a one-party political system.
What happened to ANA in La historia oficial?
She tells Alicia that her lover was a leftist opponent of the government. After her lover disappeared, Ana was taken captive by the government and tortured for information about his whereabouts. She could tell them nothing. Eventually, she was released.
What kind of teacher is Alicia in the official story?
Stern Teacher: Alicia, in contrast to Benitez the cool teacher. She teaches history and she will brook no nonsense. When the most leftist student in class justifies not citing sources in his paper because “history is written by murderers”, Alicia calmly says that he has to get his info out of books.