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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.

Release Date

February 24, 2004

Runtime

116 min

Genres

Drama

Directed by

Andrés Wood, Eliseo Altunaga, María José Droguett, Felipe del Río

Screenplay by

Mamoun Hassan, Eliseo Altunaga, Andrés Wood, Roberto Brodsky

Language

Spanish; Castilian

Budget

$1,500,000

Revenue

$3,187,700

Status

Released
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