Captive (2005 film)

Cautiva

A poster with the film's Argentinian title: Cautiva
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 (2005-10-20)
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.

Plot

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.

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