Ricardo Darín toplines Santiago Mitre’s Venice competition title as the prosecutor who led the landmark case against the architects of Argentina’s reign of military terror.
The film’s greatest resonance will naturally be with Argentine audiences who know firsthand the legacy of the juntas’ so-called dirty war against perceived subversives. For a wider viewership,is an instructive and thoughtful depiction of what it takes to hold tyrants accountable within the perimeters of a legal system, the persistence and paperwork and fearlessness required to achieve justice.
A few title cards set up the background before the action launches into Strassera’s involvement in the case, which would try nine military commanders, three of them former presidents, for crimes against humanity. The 1983 election of President Alfonsín ended seven years of dictatorship, and he decreed that the juntas’ chiefs stand accused of the kidnapping, torture, murder and disappearance of tens of thousands of Argentine citizens.
Cinematographer Juliá captures Buenos Aires’ bustle, the imposing scale of the government buildings where much of the action unfolds in cramped offices. The unflashy attention to period details by production designer Micaela Saiegh and costume designer Mónica Toschi serves the story well, never distracting from Strassera and the work at hand.
“History,” he tells his ailing friend and mentor Alberto , “was not made by guys like me” — laying forth, quite clearly, the thesis that the film sets out to disprove. With just five months to gather evidence, he needs to build a team, and seeks the advice of another friend, Carlos Somigliana , a theater director with a background in the law.
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