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Chicago Boys
2015 7.5 (11 votes) 1h 25m
Genres
Documentary

Chicago Boys

Overview

The economists behind the implementation of the most extreme capitalist system in the world observe with surprise the discontent of its countrymen. For the first time, they tell the story of how they became Milton Friedman's students in Chicago in the 1950s and what were they willing to do to pursue their extreme economic ideas, aided by Pinochet's dictatorship in the 70s. Unseen images and testimonies that allow us to understand the historic process that transformed the Chilean people and Chile in the country that it is today, an image of success and discontent.

Key Crew

Director: Rafael Valdeavellano, Carola Fuentes

Director of Photography: Pablo Valdés

Screenplay: Carola Fuentes

Top Cast

Joaquín Lavín
Joaquín Lavín

Self - Minister of Social Development. Chicago Boy '79

Jaime Guzmán
Jaime Guzmán

Self (archive footage)

Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende

Self (archive footage)

Patricio Aylwin
Patricio Aylwin

Self (archive footage)

Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet

Self (archive footage)

Michelle Bachelet
Michelle Bachelet

Self (archive footage)

Sebastián Piñera
Sebastián Piñera

Self (archive footage)

Videos

CHICAGO BOYS Trailer

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