Wood, Andrés, (II), Ernesto Malbran, Küppenheim, Aline, Martelli, Manuela, Mateluna, Ariel, Quer, Matías	...	(Director)
Mamoun Hassan, Andrés Wood	...	(Writer)
Matías Quer	...	Gonzalo Infante
Ariel Mateluna	...	Pedro Machuca
Manuela Martelli	...	Silvana
Aline Küppenheim	...	María Luisa Infante
Ernesto Malbran	...	Father McEnroe
Tamara Acosta	...	Juana
Francisco Reyes	...	Patricio Infante
Alejandro Trejo	...	Willy
Maria Olga Matte	...	Miss Gilda
Gabriela Medina	...	Lucy
Luis Dubó	...	Ismael Machuca
Andrea García-Huidobro	...	Isabel
Tiago Correa	...	Pablo
Pablo Krögh	...	Colonel Sotomayor
Federico Luppi	...	Roberto Ochagavía
Alfredo Ahumada	...
Daniel Alcino	...
Catherine Mazoyer	...	Profesora Nueva
Julio Briceno	...
Vladimir Dubo	...
Samuel Echeverria	...
Lucas Edwards	...
Benjamín Fernández	...
Joaquim Fernández	...
Matias Field	...
Alejandro Golz	...
Carlos Gonzalez	...
Carlos Johnson	...	Casting
Samuel Guajardo	...
Claudio Gutierrez	...
Juan Carlos Arriagada	...	Executive Producer
Nathalie Trafford	...	Executive Producer
Andrea Herman	...
Francisca Imboden	...	Amiga 2 Maria Luisa
María Izquierdo	...	(uncredited)
Rodrigo Bazaes	...	Production Design
Franco Jorquero	...
Eduardo Castro	...	Production Manager
Alejandro Kellner	...
Javiera Varas	...	Art Direction
Juan Krogh	...
Miguel Hormazábal	...	sound
Catherine Mezeyer	...
Juan Pablo Miranda	...	Soldado
Mauricio Lopez	...	Sound Editor
Julio Jorquera Arriagada	...	Location Manager
Victor Hugo Ogaz	...
Eliseo Altunaga	...	Script Supervisor
Tomas Ozola	...
Amparo Noguera	...	Thanks
Aldo Parodi	...	Sastre
Isidoro Quer	...
Javier Quer	...
Eugenia Soto	...
Carole Sotomayor	...
Sebastian Trautmann	...	Gaston
Hugo Vasquez	...	Apoderado 1
Miguel Villalonga	...
Felipe Zapata	...
Jorge Zepeda	...	Chofer de Ochagavía
Miguel Miranda	...	Composer
José Miguel Tobar	...	Composer
Miguel Joan Littin M.	...	Cinematographer
Fernando Pardo	...	Editor
Soledad Salfate	...	Editor
Jack Arama	...	Apoderado
David Arancibia	...	David Ahumada
Cristóbal Aravena	...	Christián Quiróz
Luis Bascuñán	...	Lisandro Toro
Mauricio Bustos	...	Kiosquero
Francisca Concha	...	Madre Robles
Nicolás Guiloff	...	Alumno Bidón
Sebastián Labarca	...	Sebastián Ferreira
Jean Larrabure	...	Juan Pablo Vial
Verónica Moraga	...	Amiga 3 Maria Luisa
Felipe Navarrete	...	Felipe Larroin
Moisés Olivares	...	Soldado
Cristóbal Osario	...	Cristóbal Gómez
Tomás Osario	...	Tomás Gómez
Isidora Quer	...	Nina
Pablo Striano	...	Dependiente
Stefan Von Bischoffshausen	...	Stefan von Huscevic
Eduardo Burlé	...	Rolando Hamilton
Miguel Ioann Littin Menz	...	Cinematographer

Comments: DSP 215

Summary: Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ),English ( Subtitles ),French ( Subtitles ),WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, Trailer(s),SYNOPSIS: Political unrest helps spawn and destroy a friendship between two schoolboys in this drama. In Chile in 1973, as the leadership of socialist president Salvador Allende was coming under fire from the nation's military leaders and the leaders of several powerful Western nations (including the United States), many in the country were inspired to address the issues of the vast gulf between Chile's rich and poor. Father McEnroe (Ernesto Malbran), one of the headmasters of an exclusive private school, decides to confront this matter by giving a handful of poor children a full scholarship. Pedro Machuca (Ariel Mateluna) is one of the new students, and while he and his fellows are picked on by the school's bullies, Pedro is a brave kid who stands his ground, and he's soon befriended by Gonzalo Infante (Matías Quer), whose rich parents live in Santiago's wealthy suburbs. Gonzalo's family is standing on shaky ground these days; his mother (Aline Küppenheim) is having an affair, and his father (Francisco Reyes) finds himself at odds with her increasingly right-wing political views. Gonzalo begins spending more time with Pedro and his family; he particularly likes Uncle Willi (Alejandro Trejo), who cheerfully sells flags to Chileans on both sides of the political fence, and develops a crush on Silvana (Manuela Martelli), Pedro's older cousin. But the political and economic differences that are dividing the country find their way into the school, leading to a rift between the two friends. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, Goya Awards, Oscar Academy A