Director Santiago Mitre recreates Trial of the Juntas in new Amazon film
TODAY 10:32
Renowned actors Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani to play prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo in Santiago Mitre’s ‘Argentina, 1985,’ the first Amazon Original film produced in the country.
Amazon Studios has announced that production has begun on a new film: Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985, a new movie inspired by the famous Trial of the Juntas.
Amazon has teamed up with La Unión de los Ríos, Kenya Films and Infinity Hill to produce the movie, Argentina’s first Amazon Original title, which is set for release in 2022. It described the movie as “a battle of David versus Goliath” with “unexpected” protagonists.
Renowned actors Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani will play prosecutors Julio César Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo in the film, which is inspired by the work of the prosecutors who brought the nine leaders of the 1976-1983 Argentina’s military junta to justice, just 16 months after democracy had returned to the country.
In a historic ruling read on December 9, 1985, former dictator Jorge Videla and former Navy Chief Emilio Massera were sentenced to 17 years in jail, former general Roberto Viola, Videla's successor in the de facto presidency, and Navy chief Armando Lambruschini were given eight years, with four-and-a-half years behind bars for the chief of the Air Force Omar Graffigna. The other four defendants were acquitted.
The trial was the first time that Argentina’s justice system had heard accounts from eye-witnesses and survivors of the network of clandestine detention and torture centres that the dictatorship’s leaders had established across the country. According to human rights organisations, some 30,000 people were disappeared by the military junta.
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