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"La Historia Oficia" Screening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
Thu May 24 09:53:12 2001
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:51:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Payal Parekh <parekh@pimms.mit.edu>
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IFILM will show "La Historia Oficia" tonight at 8 pm. The Official Story
is the
first movie that was shot in 1985 about the Dictatorship that ended in
1983.
It was first to acknowledge the abduction of children whose parents
were subjected to enforced disappearances.
The Official Story won many awards including the Oscar in 1986 for Best
Foreign
Language Film.
**** TODAY at 8 pm ****
"The Official Story" (Argentina, 1985)
by Luis Puenzo
with a brief introduction by Cansu Tunca
Location: 4-237
Genre: Drama
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Running time: 112 minutes
Format: VIDEO
Awards: Academy Award Winner, Best Foreign Film
Full info available at: http://www.mit.edu/~ifilm
Summary:
In the mid-70's, Argentina's military dictatorship carried out a
brutal campaign of torture and murder against thousands of its own
citizens. Set in present day Argentina, the Official Story follows
Alicia, the sheltered wife of a wealthy 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 desaparecidos" (the disappeared ones). The Official Story is
the true account of a woman faced with the hardest choice she could
make, to live a lie, or risk tearing apart her own life and family.
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