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Rating: 7.774/10 by 199 users

Machuca (2004)

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.

Directing:
  • Andrés Wood
  • Eliseo Altunaga
  • María José Droguett
  • Felipe del Río
Writing:
  • Eliseo Altunaga
  • Roberto Brodsky
  • Andrés Wood
  • Mamoun Hassan
Stars:
Release Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2004

Rating: 7.774/10 by 199 users

Alternative Title:
Mon ami Machuca - FR
Machuca, mein Freund - AT
Min ven Machuca - DK

Country:
Chile
France
Spain
United Kingdom
Language:
Español
English
Runtime: 01 hour 56 minutes
Budget: $1,500,000
Revenue: $3,187,700

Plot Keyword: 1970s, demonstration, trauma, santiago, chile, chile, pinochet regime, friends, historical event, classmate, sexual initiation

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