Machuca (2004)

Regisseur:

Andrés Wood

Drehbuchautoren:

Eliseo Altunaga (writer)
Roberto Brodsky (writer)

Premierendatum:

11. Juni 2004 (Spain)

Genre:

Biographie | Drama

Plot:

Two boys observe a political coup in their native Chile.

Plot Keywords:

Banging Pots And Pans | Coming Of Age | Soccer | Blood | Capitalism

Filmpreise:

8 wins & 3 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Wonderful and transcendent

Besetzung

Matías Quer	...	Gonzalo Infante
Cynthia Choukair	...	Starring
Ariel Mateluna	...	Pedro Machuca
Manuela Martelli	...	Silvana
Ernesto Malbran	...	Father McEnroe
Aline Küppenheim	...	María Luisa Infante
Federico Luppi	...	Roberto Ochagavía
Francisco Reyes	...	Patricio Infante
Luis Dubó	...	Ismael Machuca
Tamara Acosta	...	Juana
Maria Olga Matte	...	Miss Gilda
Gabriela Medina	...	Lucy
Tiago Correa	...	Pablo
Alejandro Trejo	...	Willi
Andrea García-Huidobro	...	Isabel

Alternativ:

Machuca, mein Freund (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

USA:121 Min

Produktionsland:

Chile | Spain | UK | France

Sprache:

Spanisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Sweden:15 (TV rating) | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Brazil:12 | Chile:TE | Germany:12 | Ireland:15A | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Zurich) | Switzerland:16 (canton of St. Gallen) | UK:15

Drehorte:

Santiago, Chile

Dies und das:

The book that Gonzalo's mother's friend gives to him is "The Lone Ranger", the story of a man who befriends an Indian.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt The Lone Ranger (1956)

Wonderful and transcendent

This is an absolutely wonderful film that captures a very interesting period of history told as a coming-of-age tale from the perspective of three pubescent school children. Like "Diaros de Motocicleta", the recent film about a young Ernesto Guevara, this is NOT simply a political diatribe. It does not romanticize the Allende government or the difficulties (riots, shortages, etc.)that the country went through during his turbulent reign. It certainly doesn't paint the Pinochet coup in a very favorable light, but I don't see how you can make the overthrow of a democratically-elected government and the murder, torture, and disappearance of some 3,000 people look like a wonderful thing. The film portrays many Pinochet supporters either as rich and corrupt or as small-minded, reactionary bullies (which is not entirely inaccurate), but it certainly doesn't shy away from the dark side of the Allende revolution( Allende supporters are shown accosting middle-class Chileans in the street, Allende himself appears in actual TV footage of his notorious meeting with Soviet leader Leonid Breshnev). Really though it would be a shame if continuing political differences stop people from seeing this superb film which really transcends politics to capture the spirit of youth and a time that, as terrible as it was, will never be forgotten.