Machuca
2004, Film, 121 min, Biography, Drama, History, Spanish, Chile, MoviePedia score 74
Two boys observe a political coup in their native Chile.
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.
Directed by Andrés Wood
Cast
- Matías Quer as Gonzalo Infante
- Ariel Mateluna as Pedro Machuca
- Manuela Martelli as Silvana
- Aline Küppenheim as María Luisa Infante
- Ernesto Malbran as Father McEnroe
- Tamara Acosta as Juana
- Francisco Reyes as Patricio Infante
- Alejandro Trejo as Willy
- Maria Olga Matte as Miss Gilda
- Gabriela Medina as Lucy
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