Machuca
Two boys observe a political coup in their native Chile.
Machuca (2004)
Timing:
1:56 (116 min)
7.741/10
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7.149/10
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7.7/10
13000
13000
Country
Production
Genre
Drama
Budget
$1 500 000
Revenue
$26 676
Director
Actors
Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Aline Küppenheim, Ernesto Malbrán, Federico Luppi, Manuela Martelli, Tamara Acosta, Francisco Reyes, Alejandro Trejo, María Olga Matte
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Gerardo Herrero, Mamoun Hassan, Andrés Wood, Juan Carlos Arriagada, Nathalie Trafford
Operator
M.I. Littin-Menz
Composer
Miguel Miranda
Artist
Audition
Carlos Johnson
Editing
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- Due to extreme budget constraints, the film was shot only on Sundays, when the actors were free from their primary jobs.
- Due to the fact that the Chilean film industry was only just emerging during this period, there were very few professional actors in the country. As the young actors were not professionals and had no prior experience, the director began working with them seven months before the actual filming process began.
- The book that Gonzalo’s mother’s friend gives him to read is “The Lone Ranger” – a story about a man in the Wild West who befriended a Native American.
- The shot of the plane flying overhead at the end of the film reflects a real event: a plane sent to bomb the presidential palace in Santiago during the military coup.
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