The Motorcycle Diaries

Diarios de motocicleta (2004)

Timing: 2:6 (126 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2004-02-06

Country

Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Peru, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Focus Features, Film4 Productions, Wildwood Enterprises, Sound for Film, Senator Film, Inca Films S.A., BD Cine, Tu Vas Voir, Sahara Films, South Fork Pictures

Genre

Drama

Budget

$0

Revenue

$57 641 466

Website

http://www.motorcyclediariesmovie.com

Director

Walter Salles

Actors

Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mercedes Morán, Mía Maestro, Jean Pierre Noher, Lucas Oro, Marina Glezer, Sofia Bertolotto, Franco Solazzi, Ricardo Díaz Mourelle
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Scenario

Producer

Karen Tenkhoff, Edgard Tenenbaum, Daniel Burman, Diego Dubcovsky

Operator

Éric Gautier

Composer

Gustavo Santaolalla

Artist

Audition

Walter Rippell

Editing

Daniel Rezende
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• The film was based on Che Guevara's memoir *The Motorcycle Diaries*, as well as notes by his friend Alberto Granado and materials obtained from his widow, Aleida March. 80-year-old Alberto Granado himself appears in one of the film's final scenes.
• The actor Rodrigo de la Serna, who played the role of Alberto Granado, is a distant relative of Che Guevara.
• When Ernesto and Alberto are in Temuco, Chile, and reading the local daily newspaper “El Diario Austral,” Alberto complains that his surname was misspelled. This newspaper is still published today and is the largest in Araucanía (an administrative region in Chile). During filming in Temuco, the newspaper published a report from the set and again, this time deliberately, made a mistake in Alberto’s surname.
• In reality, Ernesto and Alberto had a motorcycle made by the British company Norton Motors Ltd. with a 500 cubic centimeter engine. Restored Norton motorcycles were used in the filming, and modified Suzuki motorcycles (nicknamed “Nortzuki”) were used in the crash scenes. According to the director, the old Nortons worked like clockwork, while the modern Suzukis constantly broke down.
• Two scenes that were not in the script were included in the film, meaning they were improvised. There was no scene in the script of Ernesto and Alberto riding in the snow, nor was there a scene in Cusco.
• The basis for the film was Che Guevara's memoir "The Motorcycle Diaries", as well as notes from his friend Alberto Granado and materials obtained from his widow, Aleida March. The 80-year-old Alberto Granado himself appears in one of the final scenes of the film.