"The Official Story" Oscar from the Academy of Sciences and Arts Motion Picture

This is the first production of Argentina who won an Oscar from the Academy of Sciences and Arts Motion Picture.

Thirty years of that achievement, Thursday 24 will be released in theaters in the country. The first hard reflection on civil participation during the military dictatorship. 

On Thursday 24, the day the 40th anniversary of civilian-military coup that led to the bloodiest lived dictatorship in Argentina recalled, Luis Puenzo reestrenará version remastered "the official story" the first hard reflection on civil participation in that period and its consequences, awarded the Oscar for best foreign language film spoken. 

The task of digital recycling 4K as the original negatives of production released on April 3, 1985 and awarded the Oscar on March 24, 1986, 30 years ago, involved a team in which collaborated technicians who participated in the original project. 

But it was also the responsibility of many more who worked in laboratories Cinecolor to reach the copy that was at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. Puenzo is enthusiastic about the idea of putting back on cinema screens the work that gave him international recognition. 

In the book recently published by the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA), about the film, Puenzo recalls that the idea was born after the Falklands War: "I started writing a story, a short story, as always start the scripts. the grandmother was the main character. With limited resources mettle and a grandmother, began to find out what happened to his born in captivity and found out what happened in the country granddaughter , "he said. Validity The director reviews his award -winning film which he defines as "very timely". 

"I'm not sure say that today we would do the movie just because at that time we were with a lot of pressure and desire to do it, and I think one thing that happened that is uncomfortable is that as the cycles are repeated and when you think makes standing on the other side and what should be believed and what is not exceeded" says Puenzo with a reflective tone. 

"I do not see it as a film that happened at that time but is clearly a continuum, the issue with the parable of The Plague, Albert Camus, this thing bacilli never go away completely, they fall asleep in a handkerchief, and then wake up and come out again, and this is somehow tiring because you have to fight it again and again" he said. 

The plot "The Official Story" tells the story of a school teacher, married to a businessman, who adopted a girl in the times of repression, who one day receives the visit of a Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo that arouses suspicion the origin of his "daughter of the heart", a situation that reveals the dark side of her husband.