In 'Argentina, 1985,' actor Ricardo Darín and director Santiago Mitre dramatize the trial that held a military dictatorship accountable for atrocities.
This isn’t the first time that actor Ricardo Darín has helped shine a light into one of the dingiest rooms in Argentina’s history: the military dictatorship that staged a right-wing coup d’etat and ruled his country between 1976 and 1983, during which as many as 30,000 people may have been murdered and disappeared.
“I am especially honored to have played this great man — who was incorrectly called ‘common’ or ‘simple’ — within a context in which he and his team had to put aside all their fears and uncertainties,” Darín said, speaking by phone.
“When I made that film with Ricardo, I discovered that, in addition to being a talented actor, subtle and extremely precise in the way he works and uses his dramatic resources, he is a filmmaker, a person who thinks about cinema in all its aspects,” Mitre said. “He was the first I thought of to tell this story, and he told me right away that he would play Strassera.
“What we’re trying to do is capture what these people were thinking and doing at the time,” he said. “We tried to imagine all that, and hand in hand with a script as well-written as the one that was used, we formed a team in which we fed each day with a little more information.
To that end, Mitre wanted to make the movie’s visual and narrative style accessible in the manner of a classic Hollywood courtroom drama. In “Argentina 1985,” Darín, who is 65, plays a man who was in his early 50s when the Juicio a las Juntas began. His deputy, Moreno Ocampo, was much younger , as was most of the rest of the prosecutorial team — a contrast that underscores the gap between how older Argentines recall the Dirty War while younger Argentines attempt to piece it together.
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