

Machuca
Two boys observe a political coup in their native Chile.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
- $3.2M
- Language
- Spanish
- 1970s
- demonstration
- trauma
- santiago, chile
- chile
- pinochet regime
- friends
- historical event
- classmate
- sexual initiation
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Chile, France, Spain, United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical24 Feb 2004
HungaryHU
- Digital / OTT169 Aug 2006
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT153 Jun 2005
PolandPL
- Digital / OTT1624 Jun 2005
SwitzerlandCH
- Digital / OTT1624 Feb 2004
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Machuca was released on 24 February 2004.
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