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* OverprotectiveDad: Strassera is (justifiably) concerned about his family's safety, particularly as he becomes the face of the prosecution and lies right in the crosshairs of the military and its sympathizers. The film opens with him following his daughter through the city in his car
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Despite the efforts of the military to keep this trial [[CourtMartialed under their wing]], the government decides to send the case to a civilian court. Julio César Strassera is named Chief Prosecutor. However, sentencing the nine highest ranking officials in the Argentine Armed Forces is not an easy task; with most people and institutions either having [[LesCollaborateurs collaborated]] with the regime, agreeing with their actions, or being deathly afraid of any repercussions, Strassera will have to trust in the skills of his assistant, Luis Moreno Ocampo and a group of inexperienced lawyers and paralegals to find evidence of the systematic efforts of the dictatorship to {{Unperson}} thousands.
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Despite the efforts of the military to keep this trial [[CourtMartialed under their wing]], jurisdiction]], the government decides to send the case to a civilian court. Julio César Strassera is named Chief Prosecutor. However, sentencing the nine highest ranking officials in the Argentine Armed Forces is not an easy task; with most people and institutions either having [[LesCollaborateurs collaborated]] with the regime, agreeing with their actions, or being deathly afraid of any repercussions, Strassera will have to trust in the skills of his assistant, Luis Moreno Ocampo Ocampo, and a group of inexperienced lawyers and paralegals to find evidence of the dictatorship's systematic efforts of the dictatorship to {{Unperson}} thousands.
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Buenos Aires, 1984. After being ruled by a military junta for seven years in what is euphemistically called the UsefulNotes/NationalReorganizationProcess, Argentina is under a democratic government once more. The newly-elected President, Raúl Alfonsín, declares his intention to put on trial the military junta that ruled with an iron fist, suspected of having kidnapped, tortured, and murdered at least 8,000 and possibly as maybe as 30,000 people, who remain missing until today.
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Buenos Aires, 1984. After being ruled by a military junta for seven years in what is euphemistically called the UsefulNotes/NationalReorganizationProcess, Argentina is under a democratic government once more. The newly-elected President, Raúl Alfonsín, declares his intention to put on trial the military junta that ruled with an iron fist, fist on trial, as they are suspected of having kidnapped, tortured, and murdered at least 8,000 and possibly as maybe many as 30,000 people, many who remain missing until today.to this day.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Strassera's son, Javier, knows a bit about the law and helps his father review his closing argument. Ironically enough, he accused the film of being ideologically biased in favor of Peronism.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Strassera's son, Javier, knows a bit about the law and helps his father review his closing argument. Ironically enough, he accused the film of being ideologically biased in favor of Peronism.Peronism.
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* JustFollowingOrders: The previously democractic government (lead by JuanDomingoPeron's second wife) had already given orders to "annhiliate the guerrillas". Of course this was given as an excuse during the trial.
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* JustFollowingOrders: The previously democractic government (lead by JuanDomingoPeron's UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron's second wife) had already given orders to "annhiliate the guerrillas". Of course this was given as an excuse during the trial.
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* TheGhost: The Argentine President at the time, Rau´l Alfonsi´n, is alluded to several times across the movie. He even has a meeting with Strassera at some point. However, he is not shown on screen or even heard.
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* TheGhost: The Argentine President at the time, Rau´l Alfonsi´n, Raúl Alfonsín, is alluded to several times across the movie. He even has a meeting with Strassera at some point. However, he is not shown on screen or even heard.
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* TheGhost: The Argentine President at the time, Rauú Alfonsiún, is alluded to several times across the movie. He even has a meeting with Strassera at some point. However, he is not shown on screen or even heard.
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* TheGhost: The Argentine President at the time, Rauú Alfonsiún, Rau´l Alfonsi´n, is alluded to several times across the movie. He even has a meeting with Strassera at some point. However, he is not shown on screen or even heard.
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* TheGhost: The Argentine President at the time, Raul Alfonsin, is alluded to several times across the movie. He even has a meeting with Strassera at some point. However, he is not shown on screen or even heard.
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* TheGhost: The Argentine President at the time, Raul Alfonsin, Rauú Alfonsiún, is alluded to several times across the movie. He even has a meeting with Strassera at some point. However, he is not shown on screen or even heard.
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* TheGhost: The Argentine President at the time, Raul Alfonsin, is alluded to several times across the movie. He even has a meeting with Strassera at some point. However, he is not shown on screen or even heard.
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* TheGhost: The Argentine President at the time, Raul Alfonsin, is alluded to several times across the movie. He even has a meeting with Strassera at some point. However, he is not shown on screen or even heard.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The film ends with Strassera appealing the ruling of the court absolving some of the members of the junta, implying the search for justice against the crimes of the dictatorship will continue.
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* BittersweetEnding: Videla and Massera were condemned to life imprisonment, but some of the officers got very minor sentences and others even got absolved. Even then, those condemned will be eventually pardoned by President Menem in 1990. Nevertheless, a milestone in judicial history has been achieved, as military officers were put on trial and condemned for their crimes by civilian judges. On the brighter side, some of the pardoned officers (like Videla) will be put on trial again and sentenced in the following years.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Strassera's son, Javier. Who knows a bit about the law and helps his father review his closing argument.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Strassera's son, Javier. Who Javier, knows a bit about the law and helps his father review his closing argument.argument. Ironically enough, he accused the film of being ideologically biased in favor of Peronism.
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* TheGhost: The Argentine President at the time, Raul Alfonsin, is alluded to several times across the movie. He even has a meeting with Strassera at some point. However, he is not shown on screen or even heard.
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* HappilyEverBefore: While it's addressed in the epilogue, the high-ranking officers condemned will be eventually pardoned by President Carlos Menem in 1990, years after the movie ends. Some of them (including Videla) were put on trial again and condemned after the pardon laws were declared unconstitutional in the 2000s, however.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Italo Luder, president of the Senate during Isabel Peron's government and Peronist candidate for president in 1983, is presented as a mere witness in the trial. In reality, he also supported self-pardoning laws signed by the members of the junta.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Antonio Troccoli, Minister of Interior of President Alfonsin. In the film, he is portrayed as a military apologist, blaming the victims and defending the military from the accusations. In reality, while he was a moderate connected with the military, he not only supported the creation of the CONADEP and the trial against the military officers but also protected Strassera and his crew from threats. In addition, the speech was meant to calm the Armed Forces after several bomb threats were sent to the television studio since the content of the show was seen as extremely controversial at the time, with the fears of a coup still present. Even his position of moral equivalence between the crimes of the military and the crimes of the guerrilla (the "Two Demons" theory) was the mainstream at the time, being present in the Nunca Mas report.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Italo Luder, president of the Senate during Isabel Peron's government and Peronist candidate for president in 1983, is presented as a mere witness in the trial. In reality, he also supported self-pardoning laws signed by the members of the junta.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Antonio Troccoli, Minister of Interior of President Alfonsin. In the film, he is portrayed as a military apologist, blaming the victims and defending the military from the accusations. In reality, while he was a moderate connected with the military, he not only supported the creation of the CONADEP and the trial against the military officers but also protected Strassera and his crew from threats. In addition, the speech was meant to calm the Armed Forces after several bomb threats were sent to the television studio since the content of the show was seen as extremely controversial at the time, with the fears of a coup still present. Even his position of moral equivalence between the crimes of the military and the crimes of the guerrilla (the "Two Demons" theory) was the mainstream at the time, being present in the Nunca Mas report.
