Keeping history alive in legal thriller ‘Argentina, 1985’

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

The 1985 Trial of the Juntas was a seismic moment in Argentina’s history, helping to solidify the country’s democratic future after seven years of military dictatorship. But when filmmaker Santiago Mitre started talking about making a classic political thriller about the David vs. Goliath trial, in which public prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo tried former military leaders for war crimes between 1976 and 1983, he was surprised to learn that few of his peers knew much about it. “Argentina, 1985,” which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, chronicles the momentous trial, which took place under extraordinary uncertainty and unease only two years after the dictatorship fell.