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A young Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his best friend Alberto Granado set off on a road trip across South America aboard their beaten up motorcycle, with a mission to enjoy themselves and meet girls. As the trip unfolds at the behest of their spluttering motorcycle, the boys discover more about themselves than they ever imagined possible. The culmination of which is their work in a leper colony in Peru, where they reach the dawning realization of where they should head in life.

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ProducerMichael Nozik

EAN6867449008295

eBay Product ID (ePID)60973115

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ActorRodrigo De La Serna, Jorge Chiarella, Gael Garcia Bernal, Mercedes Moran, Mia Maestro

Film/TV TitleThe Motorcycle Diaries

DirectorWalter Salles

LanguageSpanish

Run Time120 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2007

FormatDVD

FeaturesWidescreen, Interactive Menu

GenreDrama, General

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Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureArgentina

Additional InformationIn 1952, a young medical student and a biochemist from Argentina set off on a road trip across South America. As they straddled their beaten up motorcycle, the men talked in awed tones of the sights they were about to experience. The record of their trip may have disappeared into the ether if one of the riders departing on that fateful day hadn't been the future insurrectionary figurehead of the Cuban revolution, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (played here by Gael Garcia Bernal). The young Che's companion on the trip was his best friend, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), with their simple goals being to enjoy themselves, and meet some girls along the way. As the trip unfolds at the behest of their spluttering motorcycle, the boys discover more about themselves than they ever imagined possible. Ernesto clings tightly to his ideals throughout, and delights in the opportunity to put them into practice. His refusal to spend the $20 provided by his girlfriend, Chichina Ferreyra (Mia Maestro), constantly angers his travelling companion as the two succumb to pangs of hunger. Ernesto's charitable nature comes to the fore when he reveals that he gave the money to a pair of out-of-work illegal immigrants. The trip winds down as the friends offer their medical expertise to a leper colony in Peru, with the duo's youthful folly acquiescing to adulthood, and the dawning realization of where they should head in life. Based on the books THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (by Guevara) and TRAVELLING WITH CHE GUEVARA (by Granado), director Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION) pulls some highly accomplished performances from his two leads. The South American landscape is breathtakingly captured on camera, with Salles vividly reproducing a continent beleaguered by poverty and disease, but containing a population in possession of an unshakeable sense of optimism, as beautifully personified by Guevara and Granado.

ReviewsTime Out - Powerful, Daily Mail - A stunning movie, The Observer - A triumph, Film Review - A film you'll never forget... A masterpiece.

AuthorErnesto Che Guevara

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleThe Motorcycle Diaries

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by jhea9344
11 Aug, 2024
Entertaining and informative
The film is based on Che Guevara’s account of a road trip around South America in the 1950’s, undertaken with a friend on an old motorbike. They have various adventures and many mishaps en route. Che, a medical student from a middle class background, sees much inequality on the journey and we see a gradual awakening of his social conscience.
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by nilam-1990
06 Jun, 2024
Interesting film of an interesting book. Thank you
Interesting film of an interesting book. Thank you
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