Don’t take democracy for granted, warns director of Argentine junta film

Comments at Venice film festival come after recent failed assassination attempt on Argentina's vice-president

• Review: Argentina 1985 - rousingly acted junta trial dramatisation

A failed assassination attempt this week on the Argentine vice-president has shown that democracy cannot be taken for granted, the director behind a courtroom drama about the trial of Argentina's military junta has said.

Opening at the Venice film festival on Saturday, Santiago Mitre's Argentina 1985 follows the prosecutors who, despite death threats and enormous legal difficulties, brought members of Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship to trial in 1985.