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The Motorcycle Diaries is a Argentin film of genre Drama directed by Walter Salles released in USA on 24 september 2004 with Gael García Bernal

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

Diarios de motocicleta

The Motorcycle Diaries
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Released in USA 24 september 2004
Length 2h6
Directed by
OriginArgentine
Genres Drama,    Biography
Rating76% 3.8482753.8482753.8482753.8482753.848275

The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta) is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla commander and revolutionary Che Guevara. The film recounts the 1952 expedition, initially by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. As the adventure, initially centered on youthful hedonism, unfolds, Guevara discovers himself transformed by his observations on the life of the impoverished indigenous peasantry. Through the characters they encounter on their continental trek, Guevara and Granado witness firsthand the injustices that the destitute face and are exposed to people and social classes they would have never encountered otherwise. To their surprise, the road presents to them both a genuine and captivating picture of Latin American identity. As a result, the trip also plants the initial seed of cognitive dissonance and radicalization within Guevara, who ostensibly would later view armed revolution as a way to challenge the continent's endemic economic inequalities.

The screenplay is based primarily on Guevara's travelogue of the same name, with additional context supplied by Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado. Guevara is played by Mexican actor Gael García Bernal (who previously played Che in the 2002 miniseries Fidel), and Granado by the Argentine actor Rodrigo de la Serna, who coincidentally is a second cousin to the real life Guevara on his maternal side. Directed by Brazilian director Walter Salles and written by Puerto Rican playwright José Rivera, the film was an international co-production among production companies from Argentina, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, Peru and France. The film's executive producers were Robert Redford, Paul Webster, and Rebecca Yeldham; the producers were Edgard Tenenbaum, Michael Nozik, and Karen Tenkhoff; and the co-producers were Daniel Burman and Diego Dubcovsky.

Synopsis

"The Che of The Motorcycle Diaries is more akin to Jack Kerouac or Neal Cassady than Marx or Lenin."— Paul Webster, executive producer

Actors

Gael García Bernal

(Ernesto Guevara de la Serna)Rodrigo de la Serna

(Alberto Granado)Mercedes Morán

(Celia de la Serna)Jean-Pierre Noher

(Ernesto Guevara Lynch)Facundo Espinosa

(Tomás Granado)
And :
Mía Maestro
Antonella Costa
Brandon Cruz
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