“Starring Verónica Llinás and Peter Lanzani, A political thriller is coming that portrays the infiltration of a high-ranking officer into the groups that were demanding their detained relatives, and which turned into an unprecedented civil resistance in Argentine history. Directed by Santiago Mitre, coming soon to Netflix,” announced Che Netflix, the X social network account that disseminates the news and content of the red “N” platform in the country.
Four years after the premiere of “Argentina 1985”, Its director, Santiago Mitre, once again delves into the theme of cases of state terrorism in the last civil-military dictatorship in a new film that will be released in Netflix. At the time, the film starring Ricardo Darin about him Trial of the Boards It meant a fictional representation of one of the most important chapters in Argentine history, which earned a great positive reception from the world public and a nomination at the 2023 Oscar Awards within the shortlist. Best International Film.
The project has the participation of Peter Lanzani, who represented the prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo in Miter’s previous film, and the actress Verónica Llinás. “This film reconstructs a real, concrete moment, and it does so from the inside, following ordinary people in an extreme situation. It does not attempt to cover an entire era, but rather to observe how violence infiltrates everyday life.“said the director, who will write the script together with the filmmaker Mariano Llinás.
Although the title of the next feature film was not revealed, the libertarian deputy Alejandro Bongiovanni posted a question about the new film production that is in the development stage. “It seems to me that that lemon no longer gives juice,” was the brief and concise message from the legislator in his personal X account.
Curiously, Patricia Bullrich, In a recent interview given to the El Cronista streaming portal, she recalled her youthful stage in the Peronist militancy of the 1970s. The current senator commented that she was in prison because the party’s militants “were heavily combated when the military coup came” and revealed: “I had a lot of fun, I got out before the dictatorship, which later became more violent.”
Since the arrival of La Libertad Avanza to the national government, the memory of the last Argentine military dictatorship has become one of the most polarized scenarios in national politics. Beyond the hegemonic gaze of “Never Again” that human rights organizations guide collective memory, voices emerge within the libertarian spectrum that propose a critical, revisionist or directly relativist reading of those years.
LLA activists and conservative intellectuals have questioned consolidated figures and stories, describing the period as a “war” against subversion rather than as a fully structured State terrorism, and they question the figure of 30,000 missing persons, calling it exaggerated or part of what they call an “ideological business” of human rights organizations. These positions have been interpreted by critics as a form of denialism or minimization of the crimes of the dictatorship.
For many human rights organizations, these gestures and statements are part of a broader strategy that involves defund and dismantle public policies aimed at memory, truth and justice about the dictatorship, as well as relativizing state responsibility. Reports from organizations such as the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) warn that such policies can cause incalculable damage to the preservation of historical memory and the understanding of state repression.
The controversy also reached other areas, the ruling party has launched visual campaigns, within the framework of the 2025 legislative elections, that equate Kirchnerism with State terrorism or minimize cultural references associated with historical memory, such as the demolition of a monument dedicated to the historian Osvaldo Bayer. In contrast to these sectors, a good part of the political arc defines the last dictatorship as a period with systematic violations of undeniable human rights.
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