Machuca - dvd

DD5.1 Spanish with English subtitles
A semi-autobiographical account of the tragic events of Chile's 1973 coup seen through the eyes of two 11-year-old boys. Gonzalo Infante lives with his well-to-do family in a suburb of Santiago. His new classmate, Pedro Machuca, lives in a recently created illegal shantytown a few blocks away with his cousin, Silvana. There is a huge wall--economic and psychological--dividing their two worlds, a wall that Father McEnroe, a progressive American priest and the new headmaster at Gonzalo's private school, wants to tear down...