Machuca
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
Year: 2004
Genre: Drama
Studio: Tornasol Media, Canal+ España, TVE, Invercine&Wood, Paraíso Production, Mamoun Hassan Productions, Programa Ibermedia
Director: Andrés Wood
Cast: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Aline Küppenheim, Ernesto Malbrán, Federico Luppi, Manuela Martelli
Crew: Andrés Wood (Screenplay), Andrés Wood (Producer), Andrés Wood (Director), Eliseo Altunaga (Screenplay), Mamoun Hassan (Screenplay), Roberto Brodsky (Screenplay)
Runtime: 116 minutes
Release: Feb 24, 2004
IMDb: 7.75/10 by 220 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Chile, France, Spain, United Kingdom
Language: Español, English
Budget: 1
Revenue: 3
Keyword : 1970s, demonstration, trauma, santiago, chile, chile, pinochet regime, friends, historical event, classmate, sexual initiation
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