The Official Story
Apr 03, 1985 | IMDB 7.5
112 min Watch NowDrama, History
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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