Machuca

movie

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.

Cast & crew

Matías Quer · Manuela Martelli · Aline Küppenheim · Francisco Reyes · María Olga Matte · Federico Luppi · Ariel Mateluna · Eliseo Altunaga · Alejandro Trejo · Mamoun Hassan · Tamara Acosta · Roberto Brodsky · Ernesto Malbrán · Andrés Wood

Studios & networks

Canal+ España · Invercine&Wood · Mamoun Hassan Productions · Paraíso Production · Programa Ibermedia · Tornasol Media · TVE