“Argentina, 1985” wins the Golden Globe for best non-English language film
The film “Argentina, 1985″ won the Golden Globe for Best Non-English Language Film on Tuesday (10th) at the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony, which is considered the forerunner of the Oscars.
Santiago Mitre’s film, starring Ricardo Darín, which follows the trial of those responsible for the dictatorship in Argentina in the 1980s, won the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) award. “I want to share this with all the people who have fought and are still fighting for democracy in Argentina since the dictatorship. I think democracy is something we need and need to keep fighting for,” Mitre said on stage as he accepted the award, accompanied by Darín.
The film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Fipresci International Critics’ Award for Best Film.
It also won the Audience Award at the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival and is pre-nominated for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category, which will announce their final nominations on January 24th.
The production, which also stars Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner and Norman Briski, tells of the work of prosecutor Julio César Strassera (Darín) and his team in the famous trial of the military juntas that ruled Argentina during the last dictatorship that ruled Argentina until 1983 and established a state terror regime with thousands of disappeared and tortured.
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