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In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna - Fuser to his friends and later known as 'Ernesto Che Guevara' - one
semester away from graduation, decides to postpone it to accompany his
twenty-nine year old biochemist friend Mial on his four month motorcycle trip
throughout South America, starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest
is to see things they've only read about in books about the continent on which
they live, and to finish that quest on Alberto's thirtieth birthday on the
other side of the continent in the Guajira Peninsula in Venezuela.
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Cast:
Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mía Maestro -
Original Title:
Diarios de motocicleta -
Country:
Argentina, United States of America, Brazil, United Kingdom, Chile, Germany, Peru -
Year:
2004 - 126' Subtitles: Portuguese
Director
Walter Salles
Walter Salles was born in 1956, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Director of documentaries and films of fiction, Salles' work revolves around the themes of traveling and the search for identity. Some of his most celebrated works are Foreign Land (1995), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), On the Road (2012).
