Machuca
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Andrés Wood
Matias Quer
Ariel Mateluna
Manuela Martelli
Ernesto Malbran
Aline Küppenheim
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Santiago, Chile, 1973: Pedro Machuca is a poor boy of tribal descent, brought into an upper class private school during Chile's brief socialist era. Gonzalo, the well-to-do boy seated a row ahead, befriends Pedro against the bullying will of his classmates. In so doing, he discovers a raw, thrilling but wildly complicated world outside his own previously sheltered homelife. Pedro's fierce, attractive young neighbor Silvana by turns mocks Gonzalo's pampered background, only to fondly lead both boys in a number of kissing games. All around them, Chile drifts towards civil war. At school, their humane headmaster Father McEnroe comes under a hysteria-driven attack by parents for his charity toward poor students. Little Gonzalo must also contend with more intimate kinds of upheaval. His sexy, melancholy mother is having a love affair with a wealthy older man. His father is sweet but ineffectual, and lacks the fire to fight for his marriage. He therefore escapes into his friendship with Pedro. Pedro gets a look at the intense dysfunctions in Gonzalo's life, and Gonzalo in turn is immersed in Pedro's world of extreme poverty. The two boys share a love of comic books devoted to the Lone Ranger. With Silvana's encouragement they also take part in protest marches--selling cigarettes and flags to demonstrators on the right as well as the left, but chanting with committed vigor when marching with the left. The already enormous rift between Gonzalo's comfortable household and Pedro's hard-scrabble life a few miles away in an illegal shantytown ultimately becomes impossible to bridge, once the bloody military coup of September 11, 1973 erupts. All three children suddenly face moral tests far beyond their young capacities.
Director
Andrés Wood
Cast
Matias Quer
Ariel Mateluna
Manuela Martelli
Ernesto Malbran
Aline Küppenheim
Federico Luppi
Francisco Kings
Luis Dubó
Tamara Acosta
María Olga Matte
Gabriela Medina
Tiago Correa
Alejandro Trejo
Andrea Garcia Huidobro
Pablo Krogh
Francisco Reyes
Alfredo Ahumada
Daniel Alcaíno
Jack Arama
David Arancibia
Cristobal Aravena
Luis Bascunan
Julio Briceno
Eduardo Burle
Mauricio Bustos
Francisca Concha
Vladimir Dubo
Samuel Echeverria
Luke Edwards
Benjamin Fernandez
Joaquin Fernandez
Matias Field
Alejandro Goic
Carlos Gonzalez
Samuel Guajardo
Nicolas Guiloff
Claudio Gutierrez
Andrea Herman
Francisca Imboden
Franco Jorquera
Alejandro Kellner
Luan Krogh
Sebastian Labarca
Jean Larrabure
Catherine Mazoyer
Juan Pablo Miranda
Veronica Moraga
Felipe Navarrete
Victor Hugo Ogaz
Moises Olivares
Cristobal Osorio
Tomas Osorio
Aldo Parodi
Javier Quer
Eugenia Soto
Carola Sotomayor
Pablo Striano
Sebastian Trautmann
Hugo Vasquez
Miguel Villalonga
Stefan Von Bischoffshausen
Felipe Zapata
Zepeda Jorge
Crew
Cristian Aguilar
Eliseo Altunaga
Eliseo Altunaga
Juan Carlos Arriagada
Rodrigo Bazaes
Jose Antonio Bermudez
Roberto Brodsky
Eduardo Castro
Eduardo Castro
Guadalupe Correa
Guadalupe Correa
Pablo Coudeu
Pablo Coudeu
Felipe Del Río
Michel Durand
Michel Durand
Gonzalo Echevarria
Karina Elgueda
Joaquin Figueroa
Eva Garrido
Alejando Mono Gonzalez
Alejando Mono Gonzalez
Mamoun Hassan
Mamoun Hassan
Maria Eugenia Hederra
Maria Eugenia Hederra
Maria Eugenia Hederra
Gerardo Herrero
Miguel Hormazabal
Cristian De Iruarrizaga
Cristian De Iruarrizaga
Carlos Johnson
Julio Jorquera
Julio Jorquera
Marcos Maldasky
Marcos Maldavsky
Maldavsky Marks
Miguel Littin Menz
Miguel Littin Menz
Juani Merino
Miguel Angel Miranda
Maya Mora
Fernando Pardo
Patricio Pereira
Patricio Pereira
Patricio Pereira
Victor Rojas
Soledad Salfate
Soledad Salfate
Waldo Salgado
Plato Sonido
Jose Miguel Tobar
Nathalie Trafford
Andrés Wood
Andrés Wood
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Audience Award at the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Released in United States 2004
Released in United States April 29, 2005
Released in United States August 2004
Released in United States November 2004
Released in United States October 2004
Released in United States on Video March 6, 2007
Released in United States Winter January 19, 2005
Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival August 18-29, 2004.
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 26-September 6, 2004.
Shown at Pusan International Film Festival October 7-15, 2004.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 15-April 29, 2004.
Shown at Sao Paulo International Film Festival October 22-November 4, 2004.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September-October 8, 2004.
Released in United States 2004 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 26-September 6, 2004.)
Released in United States 2004 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 15-April 29, 2004.)
Released in United States 2004 (Shown at Sao Paulo International Film Festival October 22-November 4, 2004.)
Released in United States 2004 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September-October 8, 2004.)
Released in United States Winter January 19, 2005
Released in United States on Video March 6, 2007
Released in United States April 29, 2005 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States August 2004 (Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival August 18-29, 2004.)
Released in United States October 2004 (Shown at Pusan International Film Festival October 7-15, 2004.)
Released in United States November 2004 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (Latin Cinema Series) November 4-14, 2004.)
