The Official Story
A truth too frightening to ignore
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4/3/1985Runtime
112 minsOverview
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
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A mother's growing horror as she unravels the truth about her daughter's origins under a regime of state violence. The film watches you as much as you watch it, intimate and suffocating in its moral reckoning.
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