Machuca

February. 24,2004      
Rating:
7.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Matías Quer as  Gonzalo Infante
Ariel Mateluna as  Pedro Machuca
Aline Küppenheim as  María Luisa
Federico Luppi as  Roberto
Manuela Martelli as  Silvana
Tamara Acosta as  Juana
Francisco Reyes as  Patricio Infante
Alejandro Trejo as  Willy
María Olga Matte as  Miss Gilda
Gabriela Medina as  Lucy

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