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Machuca
Machuca

7.8

Machuca

NR·2004·116m

Summary

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.

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Andrés Wood

Screenplay

Eliseo Altunaga

Screenplay

Roberto Brodsky

Screenplay

Mamoun Hassan

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Status:

Released

Original Language:

Spanish

Budget:

$1,500,000.00

Revenue:

$3,187,700.00

Keywords

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