Argentina 1985

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time. A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time. A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.

• Share this article on Facebook • Share this article on Twitter • Share this article on Flipboard • Share this article on Email • Show additional share options • Share this article on Linkedin • Share this article on Pinit • Share this article on Reddit • Share this article on Tumblr • Share this article on Whatsapp • Share this article on Print • Share this article on Comment One of the most surprising upsets of the Argentina, 1985winning the best non-English language feature honor, beating out the bookies’ favorites, including Netflix’s German war drama All Quiet on the Western Front, Indian box office smash RRRand Cannes festival winners Closeand Decision to Leave. The win of a Golden Globe puts increased awards focus on Santiago Mitre’s historic legal drama, which follows the story of the real-life prosecutors who put Argentine’s military on trial for the crimes of state terrorism committed during the country’s bloody dictatorship. Argentina, 1985now looks like a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination in the best The Quiet Girl, Jerzy Skolimowski’s Polish drama EOand Ali Abbasi’s newly-relevant Iranian feature Holy Spider— will provide stiff competition. But, following the Globes win, Mitre’s movie is clearly Argentina’s best chance in a decade of seizing Oscar glory. Argentina, 1985actually has a lot in common with2010’s best international feature winner Secret in Their Eyes, the last Argentine film to win cinema’s top honor (and only the second time in history, after Luis ...

Editor’s note: This review wasoriginally publishedat the 2022 AmazonStudios willrelease the film in theaters onFriday,September 30 and streaming on Prime Video on Friday, October 21. The American myth-making machine’s love for pumping out heroes, like so many cape-wearing sausages, finds its antithesis in “Argentina, 1985,” an entertaining biopic about recent Argentine history that takes the baton from Shakespeare’s idea that “some men have greatness thrust upon them.” This is very much the case for Julio Strassera (Ricardo Darín), a family man who is aghast at his appointment as lead prosecutor in what became known as “The Trial of the Juntas.” Director Santiago Mitre raises the curtain at a moment in his nation’s history when there is but a glimmer of a possibility of making a break from the military dictatorship that operated from 1976-1983, torturing, kidnapping, and terrorizing anyone it deemed a threat. Mitre presents self-determination as hinging on what kind of trial the nine generals who ruled the military government will experience. With their power still casting a long shadow, they lobby for a military trial where they will be judged by the army they used to command. The fairer option is a federal trial and — who would be its lead prosecutor? —you guessed it, Mr. Julio Strassera. Mitre and co-writer Mario Llinas (who also showed the military dictatorship in “Azor”) set out their tonal store early by establishing Julio as a brilliant curmudgeon. One might expect ...

• About Argentina, 1985 is inspired by the true story of Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo and their young legal team of unlikely heroes in their David-vs-Goliath battle in which, under constant threat, they dared to prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship against all odds and in a race against time to bring justice to the victims of the Military Junta. Show Description Argentina, 1985 is inspired by the true story of Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo and their young legal team of unlikely heroes in their David-vs-Goliath battle in which, under constant threat, they dared to prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship against all odds and in a race against time to bring justice to the victims of the Military Junta.

Oscar-nominated “Argentina, 1985” tells a very compelling story about a landmark court case brought against former military leaders who were accused of crimes against humanity. But very few Americans today know that one of the key experts presenting evidence in that case was a cigar-chomping, hat-wearing forensic anthropologist originally from Texas, Clyde Snow. Snow is also the main subject The documentary "El Equipo" (The Team) is directed by time Emmy-nominated Bernardo Ruiz. Quiet Pictures Democracy in Argentina was restored in 1983 after a seven-year military dictatorship that resulted in the The young members of that team later went on to do forensic work in more than 60 countries — and were even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. “For me, what makes Snow and this team so interesting is that they are a linking thread between different histories,” Ruiz said in a phone interview with NBC News. “While each case is specific to each country, the team takes the same scientific approach to connect all of the dots for the families of the disappeared.” Ruiz's documentary uses archival footage and testimony to tell a story about the scientists who helped gather evidence for the prosecution against the military regime — and ushered in the use of this kind of investigation to advance human rights. “Every skeleton that we find, every skull with a bullet hole in it adds a little more to our knowledge of how this system of repression and mass murder operated,” Snow says i...