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A poster with the film's Argentinian title: Cautiva |
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| Directed by | Gastón Biraben |
| Produced by | Marcelo Altmark Gastón Biraben Tammis Chandler Raúl Alberto Tosso |
| Written by | Gastón Biraben |
| Starring | Bárbara Lombardo Susana Campos Hugo Arana Osvaldo Santoro Noemí Frenkel Lidia Catalano |
| Music by | José Luis Castiñeira de Dios |
| Cinematography | Abel Peñalba Carlos Torlaschi |
| Editing by | Tammis Chandler |
| Release date(s) | October 20, 2005 |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
Cautiva (English: Captive) is a 2005 Argentine film that concerns itself with what happened to the children of the people killed after the 1970s military coup. The film states it was made with the support of Argentine National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts. Captive was an award winner at the 2003 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Cristina Quadri (Barbara Lombardo) is the model of a perfect student. Smart and affluent, her life is in perfect order until, one day, she is called from her class and made to appear in front of a judge. The judge informs her that her real parents disappeared in the 1970s. Cristina is forced to go live with her grandmother, Elisa (Susana Campos), who has spent the past 16 years attempting to locate Cristina (whose birth name was Sofia). Although, at first, she is hurt, bitter and confused, Cristina/Sofia eventually grows to care for Elisa and begins to research the fate of her parents - and how much her adoptive parents knew of the truth.