The Official Story
La historia oficial
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In Buenos Aires during the final days of the brutal Argentine military dictatorship in 1983, a sheltered, conservative bourgeois history teacher married to a corrupt regime businessman begins to suspect that their beloved five-year-old adopted daughter Gaby was stolen at birth from a 'disappeared' political dissident prisoner in a clandestine torture center, embarking on a horrifying personal investigation guided by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Luis Puenzo and Aída Bortnik's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Cannes Best Actress-winning landmark starring Norma Aleandro.
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