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The Official Story
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SUBJECTS — World/Argentina; |
This film depicts a mother's painful and inescapable pull towards the truth of her adopted daughter's origins. The truth, when she finds it, illuminates one of the awful secrets of Argentina's Dirty War of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This movie is a sensitive and intense exploration of moral character. It parallels the viewer's initiation into the consequences of a decision by a country's military junta to torture, murder, and make its opponents "disappear."
The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to the The Official Story will help teachers introduce Argentina's Dirty War. It will supplement courses in world history, Latin American history, Argentine history, and human rights.
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The Official Story will introduce the criminal activities of a fascist dictatorship and the horrors of the Dirty War in Argentina during the latter half of the 20th century. What is the dark secret involving the heroine's adopted daughter? Is the truth the official story or is it something different?
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The Argentine military saw its role in the "dirty war" as defending what it called "Western and Christian civilization." This effort took on many perverse forms in addition to torture and murder. When female prisoners were pregnant, they were not killed until after the baby was delivered. The newborn was then placed with childless families of people in the military-security apparatus using forged birth certificates. Most of the adoptive parents knew of the origin of these children. Some actually visited the jails and observed the pregnant mothers. It is estimated that 500 orphans were placed in this manner.
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