| Machuca | |
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 Chilean theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Andrés Wood |
| Written by | Roberto Brodsky Mamoun Hassan Andrés Wood Eliseo Altunaga (consultant) |
| Produced by | Andrés Wood Mamoun Hassan Gerardo Herrero |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Miguel Ioann Littin Menz |
| Edited by | Fernando Pardo Soledad Salfate |
| Music by | Miguel Miranda José Miguel Tobar |
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| Distributed by | Menemsha Entertainment |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
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| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | $3,187,700 (worldwide)[1] |
Machuca is a 2004 internationally co-produced coming-of-age drama film co-written and directed by Andrés Wood.[2] It stars Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, and Aline Küppenheim alongside Federico Luppi.
Set in Santiago during the months leading up to the 1973 coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet – which overthrew Salvador Allende's socialist government – the film tells the story of two boys who attend an elite Catholic school: Gonzalo Infante – who belongs to a wealthy family with a European background – and Pedro Machuca – who is poor and comes from an indigenous background.
The film is inspired by and dedicated to Father Gerardo Whelan, C.S.C. who from 1969 to 1973 was the director of Saint George's College, the private school depicted in the film, which the director himself attended as a boy. Machuca was filmed in July 2003 and produced on a moderate budget of US$1,700,000.[3] It is a joint Chilean-Spanish-British-French international co-production with support from Ibermedia.[4] Production companies included Andrés Wood Producciones, Tornasol Films, Mamoun Hassan, Paraíso, and Chile Films.[5]
The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight parallel section of the 57th Cannes Film Festival in May 2004.[6] It was well received in theaters in Chile and a few other countries, but did not have notable box office success outside of Latin America.[7]
- ^ "Machuca (2005)". Box Office Mojo. 10 February 2005. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ Vidal, Nuria (29 May 2008). "Machuca". Fotogramas.
- ^ "Review for Machuca (2004)". Archived from the original on 21 March 2015.
- ^ Falicov, Tamara L. (2012). "Programa Ibermedia: ¿cine transnacional iberoamericano o relaciones públicas para España" (PDF). Reflexiones. 91 (1). San José: Universidad de Costa Rica: 301. ISSN 1021-1209.
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- ^ "Machuca (2005) - International Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo". boxofficemojo.com.