Norma Aleandro

Aleandro's history teacher in The Official Story (Argentina, 1985) begins to question the origins of her adopted daughter. Her domestic life becomes inseparable from the dictatorship's disappearances, and the performance charts the painful erosion of a comfortable worldview. This is a demanding starting point, but an essential one for seeing how intimate family drama can carry a country's unresolved history without turning its central character into a mere spokesperson.