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The Official story
Title
The Official story [videorecording] = La Historia oficial / Almi Pictures, Inc.
Published
Beverly Hills, CA : Pacific Arts Video, 1987.
Physical Description
1 videocassette (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Notes
VHS.
Spanish with English subtitles.
Videorecording of the 1985 motion picture.
Academy Award, Best Foreign Film.
Director, Luis Puenzo ; screenplay, Luis Puenzo, Aida Bortnik.
Summary
Set in present day Argentina, the movie follows the sheltered wife of a wealty businessman who finds herself face to face with a legacy of terror as she begins to discover that her own daughter, adopted at birth, may have been stolen from a family of "los desaparencidos" (the disappeared ones). A true account of a woman chosing to either live a lie or risk tearing her own family apart.
Variant and related titles
Historia oficial
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Spanish
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Credits
Director, Luis Puenzo ; screenplay, Luis Puenzo, Aida Bortnik.
Performers
Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio.
Subjects
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Alimi Pictures.
Pacific Arts Video (Firm)
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