Is democracy worth fighting for? Argentine Oscar nominee inspires a ‘yes.’
In November 1976, eight months into a military dictatorship, Graciela Lois’ husband disappeared. A month later, nursing their 3-month-old daughter, she joined other spouses, siblings, and parents searching for missing loved ones.
Collecting evidence of the dictatorship’s atrocities was dangerous, heartbreaking work. Over the next seven years, an estimated 30,000 individuals would disappear, many tortured and murdered in clandestine detention centers across Argentina.
“We all felt fear,” says Ms. Lois. “But it came second to wanting to know the truth.”
On Sunday, the drama that portrays their real-life courage, “Argentina, 1985,” is up for an Academy Award in the international feature film category. The movie, which leans heavily on actual events that
