Genres
Production Companies
Tornasol Media
Canal+ España
TVE
Invercine&Wood
Paraíso Production
Mamoun Hassan Productions
Machuca
Two boys observe a political coup in their native Chile.
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.
Key Crew
Screenplay: Andrés Wood, Eliseo Altunaga, Mamoun Hassan, Roberto Brodsky
Director: Andrés Wood
Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Andrés Wood, Mamoun Hassan
Director of Photography: M.I. Littin-Menz
Top Cast
Matías Quer
Gonzalo Infante
Ariel Mateluna
Pedro Machuca
Aline Küppenheim
María Luisa
Ernesto Malbrán
Father McEnroe
Federico Luppi
Roberto
Manuela Martelli
Silvana
Tamara Acosta
Juana
Francisco Reyes
Patricio Infante
