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Date: September 24, 2004
Distributor: Focus Featres (Universal)
Film Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Director(s): Walter Salles
Screenwriter(s): Jose Rivera
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Jaime Azócar,
Rodrigo De la Serna, Ulises Dumont, Facundo Espinosa, Susana Lanteri,
Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán, Jean Pierre Noher,
Gustavo Pastorini
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Synopsis:
In 1952, two young Argentines, Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado,
set out on a road trip to discover the real Latin America. Ernesto
is a 23-year-old medical student specializing in leprology, and
Alberto, 29, is a biochemist. The film follows the young men as
they unveil the rich and complex human and social topography of
the Latin American continent. With a highly romantic sense of
adventure, the two friends leave their familiar surroundings in
Buenos Aires on a rickety 1939 Norton 500. Although the bike breaks
down in the course of their eight-month journey, they press onward,
hitching rides along the way. As they begin to see a different
Latin America in the people they meet on the road, the diverse
geography they encounter begins to reflect their own shifting
perspectives. They continue to the heights of Machu Picchu, where
the majestic ruins and the extraordinary significance of the Inca
heritage have a profound impact on the young men. As they arrive
at a leper colony deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the two are beginning
to question the value of progress as defined by economic systems
that leave so many people beyond their reach. Their experiences
at the colony awaken within them the men they will later become
by defining the ethical and political journey they will take.
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