February 20, 2023, 11:28 AM
February 20, 2023, 11:28 AM
The PSG star Lionel Messi joined his compatriots’ campaign on Monday through social networks for the Argentine film “1985” to receive 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,” wrote Messi in his Instagram story about the film that narrates the trial of the military chiefs of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) for aberrational crimes against humanity.
The film competes in the awards of the United States Film Academy with the German “All Quiet on the Front”, the Polish “Eo”, the Belgian “Close” and the Irish “The quiet girl”.
An Oscar for best international film “1985” would become the “third” for Argentine cinema, as Messi wrote, after “La historia oficial” (1985) and “El secreto de sus ojos” (2009). Argentina won its “third” world cup in Qatar 2022.
The captain of the last world champion illustrated his story about “1985” with a frame from the film in which Darín appears in his role as Julio Strassera, the prosecutor who accused the military juntas 37 years ago.
Messi was born in 1987, two years after the trial, whose transfer to the cinema he now mobilized to the new generations in the review of the atrocities committed by that civil-military dictatorship and the historical value of that trial, under the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín (1983-1989).
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 argument of the 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.”
