Netflix announced on Tuesday the production of a new political thriller directed by filmmaker Santiago Mitre, who earned an Academy Award nomination for Argentina, 1985 in 2023.

The film, starring Peter Lanzani and Verónica Llinás, reportedly centers on the infiltration of “a high-ranking officer into groups that were peacefully organizing to demand information about detained relatives during Argentina’s military dictatorship.”

While details of the plot weren’t released, the short synopsis closely resembles the true story of the Church of the Holy Cross kidnappings, in which military personnel abducted a group of activists that included the head of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Azucena Villaflor, French nuns Alice Domon and Léonie Duquet, and other relatives of disappeared. 

The main operation took place in December 1977 after a meeting at the Buenos Aires church, and was led by infamous repressor Alfredo Astiz, who had impersonated the brother of a desaparecido in order to infiltrate the group and obtain intelligence on the Mothers. 

At the time, under the direction of editor-in-chief Robert Cox, the........

© Buenos Aires Herald