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The Motorcycle Diaries

Original title: Diarios de motocicleta
  • 20042004
  • RR
  • 2h 6m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
102K
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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
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AdventureBiographyDrama
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.
IMDb RATING
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102K
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    • Walter Salles
    • Ernesto 'Che' Guevara(book "Notas de viaje")
    • Alberto Granado(book "Con el Che por America Latina")
    • Jose Rivera(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Gael García Bernal
    • Rodrigo de la Serna
    • Mía Maestro
    • Walter Salles
    • Ernesto 'Che' Guevara(book "Notas de viaje")
    • Alberto Granado(book "Con el Che por America Latina")
    • Jose Rivera(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Gael García Bernal
    • Rodrigo de la Serna
    • Mía Maestro
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 313User reviews
    • 189Critic reviews
    • 75Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar

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    Rodrigo de la Serna in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Rodrigo de la Serna, Gael García Bernal, Mía Maestro, Pablo Ramos, Walter Salles, and Julia Solomonoff in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Gael García Bernal and Walter Salles in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Walter Salles and Alberto Granado in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Rodrigo de la Serna in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Rodrigo de la Serna and Gael García Bernal in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Gustavo Bueno and Gael García Bernal in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Gael García Bernal in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Rodrigo de la Serna and Gael García Bernal in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Rodrigo de la Serna and Gael García Bernal in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Rodrigo de la Serna and Gael García Bernal in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

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    Gael García Bernal
    Gael García Bernal
    • Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
    Rodrigo de la Serna
    Rodrigo de la Serna
    • Alberto Granado
    • (as Rodrigo De la Serna)
    Mía Maestro
    Mía Maestro
    • Chichina Ferreyra
    Mercedes Morán
    Mercedes Morán
    • Celia de la Serna (Argentina)
    Jean Pierre Noher
    Jean Pierre Noher
    • Ernesto Guevara Lynch (Argentina)
    • (as Jean-Pierre Noher)
    Lucas Oro
    • Roberto Guevara (Argentina)
    Marina Glezer
    • Celita Guevara (Argentina)
    Sofia Bertolotto
    Sofia Bertolotto
    • Ana María Guevara (Argentina)
    • (as Sofía Bertolotto)
    Franco Solazzi
    • Juan Martín Guevara (Argentina)
    Ricardo Díaz Mourelle
    • Uncle Jorge (Argentina)
    • (as Ricardo Diaz Mourelle)
    Sergio Boris
    • Young Traveler (Argentina)
    Daniel Kargieman
    • Young Traveler (Argentina)
    Diego Giorzi
    • Rodolfo (Argentina)
    Facundo Espinosa
    • Tomás Granado (Argentina)
    Matias Gomez
    • Kid (Argentina)
    • (as Matías Gómez)
    Diego Treu
    • Kid (Argentina)
    Ariel Verdun
    • Kid (Argentina)
    • (as Ariel Verdún)
    Gustavo Mansilla
    • Kid (Argentina)
      • Walter Salles
      • Ernesto 'Che' Guevara(book "Notas de viaje")
      • Alberto Granado(book "Con el Che por America Latina")
      • Jose Rivera(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      When Ernesto and Alberto are in Temuco, walking with the bike and reading "El Diario Austral," Alberto complains because they misspelled his last name. El Diario Austral still exists, and it's the biggest newspaper in the Araucanía region of southern Chile. During filming in Temuco, the newspaper wrote a new article about the making of the film, and deliberately misspelled Alberto's last name again, 50 years later.
    • Goofs
      At Macchu Pichu, a piece is broken off of the sundial at the Inti Huatana (Hitching Post of the Sun). The damage occurred in 2000, when a crane fell on it. In the 1950s, it was still in perfect condition.
    • Quotes

      Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: [voice over] How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

    • Crazy credits
      The real Alberto appears at the very end of the film just before the credits.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Making of 'the Motorcycle Diaries' (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      Adiós Muchachos
      Written by César Felipe Veldani & Julio César Sander

      Interpreted by Rodrigo de la Serna

      Interpreted by Alberto Granado

      Editorial SADAIC

    User reviews313

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    9/10
    Bias is downfall of this movie
    I would not consider myself to be an ultra liberal, but I am somewhat knowledgeable about what has been going on in South America for the last 100 years, and Che Guevara is a part of it. Going into this movie all I knew about him was that he is on a lot of t-shirts, and that "che", despite what ignorant people think, is not his name, it is what Argentinians say to each other like in the US saying "dude".

    I am also a big fan of the purity of movies, not this Spider-man crap that is all over the place, but the true art of films, and I am fairly serious when I go into a movie for the first time. A part of this is that I watch the movie throwing all bias I might have out the window and watch it as if I had never heard of it before. That said, I believe this movie was excellent because it had superb cinematography of the beauty of South America, had excellent acting, great chemistry between the two main actors (despite Ebert saying they did not), and an overall political theme.

    This movie did not get great reviews in the US, and I haven't seen reviews from Latin American countries, but I am guessing they are better. This is because many people either shied away from the movie once they heard the word Che, and if they did see it, through the whole movie they were probably thinking "commie, commie!".

    I have since read up on Che Guevara, and he is actually a fascinating person to study because he began as a rich boy who through his journeys learned how much people were suffering beyond his imagination, and part of this was how he got to be so rich, by suppressing the native people. The movie does an excellent job of showing this transition from his carefree exploring until later having an epiphany about his destiny to help the people. Yes, he got extreme after a while, but the study of him is compelling nonetheless.

    It is interesting to know that coffee and bananas that say "Guatemala" are still grown today by slave laborers on farms, and that the US does not mind the slave labor because they were the ones who sponsored a coup in 1951 to install a dictatorship that in history books says it was an ousting of communism, which makes it okay. This is a much bigger and important example than the movie, but it is the same bias involved: People in the United States (I don't say America because that refers to every country from Argentina to Canada, not just the US as people in this country like to think) not only don't care about the suffering of people in other countries (unless it's mentioned on Oprah or involves economic rewards) but have the nerve to call them evil when they try to better themselves, which at the time was the communist movement in South America. This is not the communism of Castro or even of the later Che Guevara, but simply to give more to the starving and suppressed that are today suppressed to make your bananas and Starbucks coffee.

    Because of the biases people have towards the people of countries they know nothing about, this movie has been extremely underrated in the wake of films that comparatively suck ("Ray", way overrated) yet have been rewarded because of their popularity and appeasement to the ignorant people that attend theaters in the United States.
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    • Jan 22, 2005

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    • Release date
      • October 15, 2004 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • France
      • Argentina
      • Peru
      • Chile
      • Germany
      • Spanish
      • Quechua
      • Mapudungun
    • Also known as
    • Filming locations
      • Chuquicamata, Región de Antofagasta, Chile
    • Production companies
      • FilmFour
      • South Fork Pictures
      • Tu Vas Voir Productions
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    • 2 hours 6 minutes
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      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital

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