Though the Oscar-nominated film is a feature, 'the testimonies and the closing arguments are exactly what happened in court, word for word,' says Luis Moreno Ocampo, who served as deputy prosecutor at the trial.
Peter Lanzani was especially moved by the scene where the lawyer he plays in “Argentina, 1985” confronts his nationalistic mother loyal to the regime.tells the true story of the legal team, led by chief prosecutor Julio Strassera , that brought a military dictatorship to justice in a civilian court.
In preparing for the role, Lanzani says he didn’t review video footage of his real-life counterpart. “We didn’t want to make a documentary about what happened,” he says. “We went into it with respect, but we made our own version of Luis, instead of just imitating the real person.” The film’s texture is defined not just by the victims’ testimony, but also by the emotionally charged scenes that take place outside the courtroom. Alongside the central task of swaying a panel of judges, Moreno Ocampo faced the challenge of convincing his own mother of the military junta’s guilt.
“Yes, my mother had a different mindset,” Moreno Ocampo adds. “My grandfather was a general, so she saw [former Argentinian President] Jorge Rafael Videla as her father. She went to the same church as him.” But she was eventually swayed by the testimony of one of the regime’s victims, a young teacher who was arrested while six months pregnant, then forced to give birth on the side of the road.
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