Buenos Aires, Argentina.- The soccer star, Lionel Messi, joined the campaign on social networks of his compatriots on Monday so that the film Argentina, 1985 receives the Oscar for Best International Film, on March 12.
“What a great movie ‘1985’ with Ricardo Darín and nominated for an Oscar. Let’s go for the third one,” Messi wrote in an Instagram story about the tape that narrates the trial of the military chiefs of the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). for crimes against humanity.
The Argentine film competes at the Hollywood Film Academy Awards against the German film Sin Novel en el Frente, the Polish film Eo, the Belgian film Close and the Irish film The Quiet Girl.
The captain of the world champion soccer team illustrated his story about Argentina, 1985 with a still from the film in which Darín appears in his role as Julio Strassera, the prosecutor who accused the military juntas 37 years ago.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the recovery of Argentine democracy, on December 10, 1983, when the radical (social democrat) Alfonsín took office.
The film by director Santiago Mitre reflects the plea of prosecutor Strassera before the civil magistrates and his remembered ending: “I want to use a phrase that does not belong to me, because it already belongs to all the Argentine people. Judges, never again.”
