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.
Editing | Fernando Pardo | Editor |
Production | Gerardo Herrero | Producer |
Writing | Andrés Wood | Screenplay |
Directing | Andrés Wood | Director |
Production | Andrés Wood | Producer |
Writing | Eliseo Altunaga | Screenplay |
Directing | Eliseo Altunaga | Script Supervisor |
Writing | Roberto Brodsky | Screenplay |
Writing | Mamoun Hassan | Screenplay |
Production | Mamoun Hassan | Producer |
Camera | M.I. Littin-Menz | Director of Photography |
Editing | Soledad Salfate | Editor |
Production | Carlos Johnson | Casting |
Production | Juan Carlos Arriagada | Executive Producer |
Production | Eduardo Castro | Production Manager |
Crew | Amparo Noguera | Thanks |
Crew | María Izquierdo | Thanks |
Art | Rodrigo Bazaes | Production Design |
Production | Julio Jorquera | Location Manager |
Sound | Miguel Miranda | Original Music Composer |
Sound | Miguel Hormazábal | Sound |
Production | Nathalie Trafford | Executive Producer |
Art | Javiera Varas | Art Direction |
Sound | Mauricio López | Sound Editor |
Sound | José Miguel Tobar | Music |
Directing | Felipe del Río | Third Assistant Director |
Directing | María José Droguett | Second Assistant Director |