The Official Story

Buenos Aires, 1983, the final year of Argentina's military dictatorship. Alicia, a high school history teacher, is raising her adopted five-year-old daughter Gaby with her husband Roberto, a government official. When her friend Ana returns from exile and describes torture and pregnant women who gave birth in captivity and never saw their babies again, Alicia begins to suspect that Gaby may be the child of a disappeared woman. Her search leads her to the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and to Sara, whose pregnant daughter was kidnapped, while Roberto grows angry and violent as she presses on. The film won the first Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for Latin America, and Norma Aleandro was named Best Actress at Cannes in 1985.