Machuca
feature film, 2004
DIRECTED BY: Andrés Wood
CAST:
Matías Quer (Gonzalo Infante),
Cynthia Choukair (Starring),
Ariel Mateluna (Pedro Machuca),
Manuela Martelli (Silvana),
Ernesto Malbran (otac McEnroe),
Aline Küppenheim (María Luisa Infante)
SCRIPT:
Eliseo Altunaga,
Roberto Brodsky,
Mamoun Hassan,
Andrés Wood
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Miguel Joan Littin M.
Synopsis:
Father McEnroe, head of a catholic school of St. Patric in Chile, decides to do a small sociological experiment and puts boys from different social strata in the same class. Soon the poor Pedro Machuca and rich Gonzalo Infante become great friends. Their friendship and coming of age will ultimately be affected by political and social events; the year is 1973 and a military coup is on the horizon…
color, digital, 121 min