Coup d’état: films and series to watch on Remembrance Day

Art is one of the ways humans have to represent what they live, their environment and their thoughts. Some Argentine filmmakers have done the same with what they lived in last civic military dictatorship of 1976. TO 47 years after the coup, many movies and series They have not lost their validity and are the key to describing that time and remembering the importance of democracy.

The Official Story (1985)

This film was released two years after the end of the military dictatorship. Directed by Louis Puenzo, the plot follows a teacher during the last months of the de facto government and her desperate quest to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is. The film won the oscar for “best foreign film” in the same year. can be found on the platform Netflix or on YouTube.

The main cast consists of Norma AlexanderHéctor Alterio, Hugo Arana and Chunchuna Villafañe, and the film was written by Luis Puenzo and Aida Bornik.

Dictators, a series of Nat Geo

This documentary seriesmainly produced by National Geographic, it shows and explains political strategies applied by different dictators over the years. In three chapters, archival material of various authoritarian leaders is reviewed, including the first president of the military junta that carried out the coup in 1976, Jorge Rafael Videla. It is available on Cablevisión Flow.

The Invisible Gaze (2010)

Based on the novel by Martin Kohan moral sciencesthe film follows the story of María Teresa Cornejo, a preceptor of the National College of Buenos Aires who spies on the students of the institute. Set at the beginning of Falklands War, the feature film analyzes the control exercised by the authorities of the time. It is directed by Diego Lerman and can be seen on Cine.ar Play. Juliet ZylberbergAilín Salas and Osmar Núñez, the protagonists.

Tell me how it happened, a public TV series

In 2017 the Public TV has launched a series that depicts a large part of 1970s Argentine history, but seen through the eyes of a family: the Martinez. The starting point is in 1974 with the death of Juan Domingo Perón, but it also shows the coup d’état of 1976, the first march of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (1977) and the War of the Malvinas. It goes up to 1983, when democracy is recovered.

With Nicholas Cabre AND Malena Solda in the lead roles, the series consists of 71 episodes and can be seen on Cablevisión Flow.

Argentina, 1985 (2022)

This Oscar-nominated film tells the Trial alle Giunta from the point of view of the prosecutors Julius Caesar Strassera AND Luis Moreno Ocampo, who called for justice for crimes against humanity perpetrated during the dictatorship. It is directed by Santiago Mitra and protagonist Ricardo Darin and Peter Lanzani. It can be seen on Amazon Prime Video.