A failed assassination attempt this week on the Argentine vice-president has shown that democracy cannot be taken for granted, the director behind a courtroom drama about the trial of Argentina’s military junta has said.
Opening at the Venice film festival on Saturday, Santiago Mitre’s Argentina 1985 follows the prosecutors who, despite death threats and enormous legal difficulties, brought members of Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship to trial in 1985.
“I experienced the dictatorship when I was an adolescent at school,” said Flechner, who plays Strassera’s wife.
“This has continued to this day and I think it is one of the things that should make us feel proud as Argentines.”