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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.
Jul 28, 2019 · Wood was of a similar age to Gonzalo during 1973 and his school participated in the experiment whereby the catholic priests decided to mix their students with boys from the lower classes.
In 1973, in Santiago of Chile of the first socialist president democratically elected in a Latin-American country, President Salvador Allende, the principal of the Saint Patrick School, Father McEnroe (Ernesto Malbran) makes a trial of integration between students of the upper and lower classes.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Andrés Wood
- 2004-06-11
Jul 5, 2023 · Firstly, it is loosely autobiographical, based on Wood’s time at the school St George’s in Santiago. Wood has highlighted that he interviewed the priest and some of his old classmates as part of research for the film.
Apr 14, 2005 · Chilean director Andrés Wood's evocative rites-of-passage drama tells the story of friends Gonzalo and Pedro (Matías Quer and Ariel Mateluna), and uses the boys' changing relationship as a...
Andrés Wood (1965, Chile). After studying economics at the University of Chile he left for New York, where he attended a film course. When he returned to Chile he made his first feature film 'Historias de fútbol' which was a box-office hit.
Feb 24, 2004 · 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.
