Graduate Student Advisory Committee
Commitment, Partnership, Advocacy, and Leadership
Announcement
by Roger Ebert / November 11, 1985
Five years after the arrival of her adopted daughter, Alicia finds herself asking some questions. Where, exactly, did the little girl come from? Was she indeed obtained through the normal adoption channels in Argentina, as her husband insists, or was she stolen from a mother who was a political prisoner? Is the real mother still alive? Is it moral for her to ignore those questions, just because she loves her adopted daughter so much? These are the heartbreaking dilemmas of "
The Official Story," a film that deals with the turmoil in Argentina through the story of a single family. "
The Official Story" is part polemic, part thriller, part tragedy. It belongs on the list with films like "
Z," "
Missing" and "
El Norte," which examine the human aspects of political unrest.

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