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Lost Embrace
Why this pick
A quieter Buenos Aires character study shaped by absence and inherited questions about a father’s political-era disappearance, with the same humane, searching emotional register.
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MOVIE1985 1h 52m ARG
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film is set in Argentina in 1983, in the last year of the country's National Reorganization Process, during which a campaign of state-sponsored terrorism produced thousands of killings and torture of accused political leftists and innocents alike, who were buried in unmarked graves or became ''desaparecidos''.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Norma Aleandro
Alicia
Héctor Alterio
Roberto
Hugo Arana
Enrique
Patricio Contreras
Benitez
Lidia Catalano
Dora