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Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Luis Puenzo
Hector Alterio
Norma Aleandro
Chela Ruiz
Chunchuna Villafane
Hugo Arana
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
An upper-class Argentinian women begins to suspect that the daughter she and her husband have adopted may be one of the children of purged political foes of the ruling junta.
Director
Luis Puenzo
Cast
Hector Alterio
Norma Aleandro
Chela Ruiz
Chunchuna Villafane
Hugo Arana
Patricio Contreras
Guillermo Battaglia
Maria Luisa Robledo
Analia Castro
Jorge Petraglia
Augusto Larreta
Leal Rey
Anibal Morixe
Daniel Lago
Deborah Kors
Laura Palmucci
Floria Bloise
Lidia Catalano
Carlos Weber
Susana Behocaraya
Cecilia Blanche
Angelica Bogue
Zulema Caldas
Eduardo Camacho
Paula Canals
Diego Cosin
Jorge Chernov
Alicia Dolinsky
Horacio Ermann
Monica Escudero
Oscar Ferrigno
Luis Gianneo
Eduardo Gondell
Gabriel Gonzalez
Ricardo Hamlin
Fernando Hoffman
Amparo Ibarlucia
Jose Maria Lopez
Tony Middleton
Luis Onetto
Fabian Pandolfi
Gaston Presas
Pablo Rago
Fabian Rendo
Maximiliano Reussi
Adrian Schiavelli
Jorge Sorvik
Silvia Suarez
Andrea Tenutta
Beatriz Thibaudin
Marcos Woinski
Horacio Yerve
Atilio Stampone
Daniel Binelli
Miguel Irazu
Suarez Paz
Julio Grana
Enrique Balestro
Jose Bragato
Pascual Vasallo
Mariano Tito
Romana Fanes
Eduardo Gondell
Crew
Aida Bortnik
Rodrigo Espina
Luis Esquivel
Tiky Garcia Estevez
Abel Facello
Margarita Gómez
Francisco Juarez
Abelardo Kuschnir
Carlos Latreyte
Juan Carlos Macias
Félix Monti
Félix Monti
Hector Morini
Blanca Olavego
Raul Oteda
Patricia Oyuela
Marcelo Pineyro
Luis Puenzo
Orlando Rodriguez
Osvaldo Rousseaux
Atilio Stampone
Maria Elena Walsh
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Wins
Best Foreign Language Film
Award Nominations
Best Original Screenplay
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
The Country of Argentina
Co-winner of the Best Actress (Aleandro) Prize at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Voted Best Actress (Aleandro) by the 1985 New York Film Critics.
Voted co-winner for Best Foreign Film by the 1985 Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Voted One of the Year's Five Best Foreign Language Films by the 1985 National Board of Review.
Released in United States Fall November 8, 1985
Began shooting May 2, 1984.
Released in United States Fall November 8, 1985