Aída Bortnik

Writing

Aída Bortnik

Born 1938-01-07 · Buenos Aires - Argentina

Aída Bortnik was born on January 7, 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a writer, known for The Official Story (1985), Ashes of Paradise (1997) and Wild Horses (1995). She died on April 27, 2013 in Buenos Aires. One screenplay she wrote was the first Argentine film to be 'nominated' for an Academy Award (The Truce, 1974). Another was the first Argentine film to 'win' an Academy Award (La historia official, 1985).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Official Story poster
7.5

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

The Official Story

1985

Old Gringo poster
5.7

A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.

Old Gringo

1989

A Woman... poster
10.0

After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.

A Woman...

1975

Cenizas del paraíso poster
6.9

A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth.

Cenizas del paraíso

1997

Wild Horses poster
6.6

Jose is an elderly rebel who, after being refused a withdrawal at a bank, returns with a gun and threatens to shoot himself if he doesn't get his cash. Pedro, a young teller, is disillusioned with his life and sees Jose's stunt as a way out when he pretends to be taken hostage, leaving the bank with the old man and a hefty amount of money. The unlikely duo become friends, picking up tough-girl Ana along the way, while avoiding the police.

Wild Horses

1995

Wild Tango poster
6.3

A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.

Wild Tango

1993

The Truce poster
7.5

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

The Truce

1974

The Island poster
5.5

A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.

The Island

1979

Growing Up Suddenly poster
6.0

It tells the complex relationship of Milo, a teenager, and his old protector. Adaptation of "Around the cage", work of the writer Haroldo Conti, disappeared in 1976 by Argentine dictatorship.

Growing Up Suddenly

1977

Poor Butterfly poster
6.7

A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.

Poor Butterfly

1986

To Return poster
5.7

An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets with his exgirlfriend and his best friend before the exile. The film presents an interpretation of the political and social situation in Argentina during the last years of the military government.

To Return

1982