Machuca
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See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Andrés Wood
- Writers
- Andrés Wood, Eliseo Altunaga, Mamoun Hassan, Roberto Brodsky
- Studio
- Tornasol Media, Canal+ España, TVE, Invercine&Wood
- Released
- 24 February 2004
- Country
- Chile, France, Spain, United Kingdom
- Language
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
- $3.2M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 4 →2 wins from 4 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| 19th Goya Awards 2005 | Best Spanish-Language Foreign Film | Nominee | |
| 47th Ariel Awards 2005 | Best Ibero-American Film | Nominee | |
| Film Fest Gent 2004 | Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack/Sound Design | Winner | |
| Vancouver International Film Festival 2004 | Most Popular International Film | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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4 awards — Machuca
×| Best Spanish-Language Foreign Film | Nominee |
| Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack/Sound Design | Winner |
| Most Popular International Film | Winner |
| Best Ibero-American Film | Nominee |