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The Official Story
A truth too frightening to ignore
Released
112 min
7.7/10 Votes: 10994
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
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