Matías Quer
Gonzalo Infante
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.
Release Date | 2004-02-24 |
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Runtime | 1h 56m |
Directors | M.I. Littin-Menz, Andrés Wood, María José Droguett, Felipe del Río |
Producers | Gerardo Herrero, Juan Carlos Arriagada, Mamoun Hassan, Andrés Wood, Nathalie Trafford |
Writers | Andrés Wood, Roberto Brodsky, Eliseo Altunaga, Mamoun Hassan |