In the years right after Argentina's military dictatorship fell, a small team of prosecutors and young lawyers took on the case few in the country believed could actually be won: putting the former junta leadership on trial. Argentina, 1985 dramatizes that pursuit as both a legal procedural and a portrait of the people who carried it out.
What is Argentina about?
The film centers on a prosecutor who agrees to build the case against the heads of the recently ended military dictatorship, aware that the country's institutions are still shaky and that plenty of people around him would rather the past stay buried. He assembles a team, much of it young and untested, to gather testimony and evidence fast enough to bring a case to open court. The tension comes less from courtroom theatrics than from the practical difficulty of the task: finding witnesses willing to speak, protecting a case from political pressure, and working against a deadline that leaves little room for error. The film stays close to the mechanics of building that case rather than dramatizing the dictatorship years themselves, treating the trial as the story's center of gravity.
About the cast
Ricardo Darín plays the lead prosecutor, with Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Paula Ransenberg, Carlos Portaluppi, Antonia Bengoechea, Laura Paredes, and Brian Sichel filling out the legal team, their families, and the people around the case. Director Santiago Mitre builds the film around this group's dynamic, favoring procedural detail and ensemble scenes over any single dramatic set piece.
Context & significance
Argentina, 1985 is a co-production between Argentina, the United States, and the United Kingdom, running 140 minutes with a strong 7.6 audience rating. It belongs to a small group of films that dramatize real legal proceedings against dictatorship-era leadership, and it keeps its historical and political backdrop presented as documented fact rather than commentary, letting the trial's own record carry the weight of the story.
Watching Argentina on Ktime
Argentina, 1985 streams on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers the option to watch in Farsi or follow the original Spanish dialogue with Farsi text on screen. A free K-Time account login is required to watch, while this page remains open to read without one. K-Time's Farsi-first design is built for the Iranian diaspora, making historical dramas like this one easy to discover alongside the platform's wider film catalog.