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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 36 wins & 49 nominations total
Rodrigo de la Serna
- Alberto Granado
- (as Rodrigo De la Serna)
Jean Pierre Noher
- Ernesto Guevara Lynch (Argentina)
- (as Jean-Pierre Noher)
Sofia Bertolotto
- Ana María Guevara (Argentina)
- (as Sofía Bertolotto)
Ricardo Díaz Mourelle
- Uncle Jorge (Argentina)
- (as Ricardo Diaz Mourelle)
Matias Gomez
- Kid (Argentina)
- (as Matías Gómez)
Ariel Verdun
- Kid (Argentina)
- (as Ariel Verdún)
- Director
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen 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.
- GoofsAt 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 creditsThe real Alberto appears at the very end of the film just before the credits.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Making of 'the Motorcycle Diaries' (2004)
- SoundtracksAdiós Muchachos
Written by César Felipe Veldani & Julio César Sander
Interpreted by Rodrigo de la Serna
Interpreted by Alberto Granado
Editorial SADAIC
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A bit Hollywoodish, but not too much
The topic is interesting, the quintessential "road movie" with social and political undertones (or maybe the quintessential social and political film with road undertones) and, all in all, fairly well realized. The Latin American natural and human landscape is, as always, stunning in its beauty and variety. All in all a decent film. Yet, one can't help but comparing it with the film it could have been and it wasn't, mainly due to a certain Hollywood sappiness that, maybe under the influence of the American portion of the production, percolates through the whole film. Some defects are subtle and, all in all, venial: the way facial expressions are edited in here and there in the film, certain semi-comical moments whose placement and frequency are too predictable not to arouse the suspicion that they went directly from the pages of a production manual into the film, etc. Others are more evident: the river-crossing scene is absolutely unforgivable (and this whether Guevara really swam through the river or not), the political and social aspects of the film are downplayed and, when they are played at all, they are with a naiveté that borders with a populist "good feeling" (what the Italians used to call, some ten years ago, "il buonismo.") Gael Garcia Bernal is a solid actor, and this film confirms it, but we are far away from the performance in "El crime del Padre Amaro." One can even glimpse the early symptoms of Tarantinism (a disease that I named after Quentin Tarantino: a great director who is, however, so busy being Quentin Tarantino that his life seems not to have much space for anything else.)
But, as I said, all in all, the story is good, the film keeps moving, the South American landscape is beautiful, the Argentinian accent is deliciously musical. Not a masterpiece, but worth the price of the ticket, which is more than you can say for so many films.
But, as I said, all in all, the story is good, the film keeps moving, the South American landscape is beautiful, the Argentinian accent is deliciously musical. Not a masterpiece, but worth the price of the ticket, which is more than you can say for so many films.
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- Dec 13, 2004
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- Also known as
- Hành Trình Nam Mỹ
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- Gross US & Canada
- $16,781,387
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $159,819
- Sep 26, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $57,663,711
- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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