Released:
2004-02-24

Overview:
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.

Director:
Andrés Wood

Runtime:
1h 56min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Matías Quer
  as
  Gonzalo Infante
• 
  Ariel Mateluna
  as
  Pedro Machuca
• 
  Aline Küppenheim
  as
  María Luisa
• 
  Ernesto Malbrán
  as
  Father McEnroe
• 
  Federico Luppi
  as
  Roberto