The Motorcycle Diaries
Walter Salles / US, DE, GB, AR, 2004 / 126 min.
As a student Che – then still Ernesto – Guevara travelled across South America on an old Norton motorcycle. Screening accompanying Walter Salles’ latest film, I’m Still Here. Based on Guevara and his travelling companion Alberto Granado’s diaries.
Road movie and exceptional portrayal of Ernesto Guevara’s youth in which the medical student – a member of the middle classes – becomes aware of the injustice in the world.
1952: Ernesto Guevara left Buenos Aires for a nine-month journey across South America accompanied by his slightly older friend, the biochemist Alberto Granado. Their eyes are opened to the poverty, impoverishment and powerlessness of the working classes as well as the oppression of indigenous people.
Screening on 35mm from the Eye collection.
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Details
Director
Walter Salles
Production year
2004
Country
US, DE, GB, AR
Original title
The Motorcycle Diaries
Length
126 min.
Language
Spanish, Quechua
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
Eye Classics
Eye’s collection includes a wealth of classics. With the Eye Classics series, Eye brings film history even closer. Every week, we screen at least three classics from the collection under one recognisable name: Eye Classics.
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