The Motorcycle Diaries ( Diarios de motocicleta ) ( Voyage à motocyclette )

The Motorcycle Diaries (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Diarios de motocicleta
Alternate Title: Voyage à motocyclette
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
British Independent Film Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
European Film Awards
Golden Globes
Goya Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
125 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Argentina ( Latin America, Mexico )
Brazil ( Latin America, Mexico )
Chile ( Latin America, Mexico )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Peru ( Latin America, Mexico )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Walter Salles

Written By:
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Alberto Granado

Actors:
Gael García Bernal ..... Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Rodrigo De la Serna ..... Alberto Granado
Mercedes Morán ..... Celia de la Serna (Argentina)
Jean Pierre Noher ..... Ernesto Guevara Lynch (Argentina)
Lucas Oro ..... Roberto Guevara (Argentina)
Marina Glezer ..... Celita Guevara (Argentina)
Sofia Bertolotto ..... Ana María Guevara (Argentina)
Franco Solazzi ..... Juan Martín Guevara (Argentina)
Ricardo Díaz Mourelle ..... Uncle Jorge (Argentina)
Sergio Boris ..... Young Traveler (Argentina)
Daniel Cargieman ..... Young Traveler (Argentina)
Diego Giorzi ..... Rodolfo (Argentina)
Facundo Espinosa ..... Tomás Granado (Argentina)
Matias Gomez ..... Kid (Argentina)
Diego Treu ..... Kid (Argentina)

Synopsis:

In 1952, a young medical student and a biochemist from Argentina set off on a road trip across South America. As they straddled their beaten up motorcycle, the men talked in awed tones of the sights they were about to experience. The record of their trip may have disappeared into the ether if one of the riders departing on that fateful day hadn't been the future insurrectionary figurehead of the Cuban revolution, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (played here by Gael Garcia Bernal). The young Che's companion on the trip was his best friend, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), with their simple goals being to enjoy themselves, and meet some girls along the way. As the trip unfolds at the behest of their spluttering motorcycle, the boys discover more about themselves than they ever imagined possible. Ernesto clings tightly to his ideals throughout, and delights in the opportunity to put them into practice. His refusal to spend the $20 provided by his girlfriend, Chichina Ferreyra (Mia Maestro), constantly angers his travelling companion as the two succumb to pangs of hunger. Ernesto's charitable nature comes to the fore when he reveals that he gave the money to a pair of out-of-work illegal immigrants. The trip winds down as the friends offer their medical expertise to a leper colony in Peru, with the duo's youthful folly acquiescing to adulthood, and the dawning realization of where they should head in life.

In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna - Fuser to his friends and later better known as 'Ernesto Che Guevara' - one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend 'Alberto Granado' - Mial to his friends - on his four month, 8,000 km long dream 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. Not all on this trip goes according to their rough plan due to a broken down motorbike, a continual lack of money (they often stretching the truth to gain the favor of a variety of strangers to help them), arguments between the two in their frequent isolation solely with each other, their raging libidos which sometimes get them into trouble, and dealing with Fuser's chronic asthma. But a chance encounter with a couple of Communists in the Chilean desert and an extended visit to the San Pablo Leper Colony in the Perúvian Amazon Basin among other things profoundly affects what each will want to do with his life and the bond each has with the other.

In 1952, Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old chemist, and his pal Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student, set out from Buenos Aires to explore South America. Their journey might have vanished into private recollection were it not for the fact that Ernesto went on to become Che, political idol, revolutionary martyr and pillar of the T-shirt industry. Walter Salles's film, based on Granado and Guevara's notebooks, is partly a political coming-of-age story in which Ernesto (Gael García Bernal) awakens to the injustice that plagues the continent. But the movie is also a rambunctious buddy picture (thanks in part to Rodrigo de la Serna's high-spirited portrayal of the Falstaffian Granado), a breathtaking travelogue and an unusual love story. The love in question is Ernesto's sensual and spiritual connection to the continent itself, beautifully communicated through Eric Gautier's sublime cinematography. Mr. Bernal's soulful performance is sure to enhance his reputation as one of the most magnetic young actors around, but the real stars of the movie are the rugged Chilean highlands, the peaks of the Andes and the misty banks of the Peruvian Amazon

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 December, 2011.