The Motorcycle Diaries
Also known as Motorcycle Diaries, Diarios de motocicleta
2004 film by Walter Salles
Film · TMDB
7.4Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
Released: 2004-02-06126 minDir: Walter SallesDramaBox office: $57.7M
Cast
- Gael García Bernal as Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna
- Rodrigo de la Serna as Alberto Granado
- Mercedes Morán as Celia de la Serna
- Mía Maestro as Chichina Ferreyra
- Jean Pierre Noher as Ernesto Guevara Lynch
- Lucas Oro as Roberto Guevara
Themes
- based on novel or book
- peru
Article
The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta) is a 2004 biographical coming-of-age road film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by José Rivera, based on Che Guevara's 1995 memoir of the same name and Alberto Granado's memoir Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary. The film recounts the 1952 expedition, initially by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and Granado, observing the life of the impoverished indigenous peasantry. Through the trip both of them witness the social classes struggle in Latin America.
It stars Gael García Bernal (who had previously played Che in the 2002 miniseries Fidel) as Guevara, and Rodrigo de la Serna as Granado (Serna himself is second-cousin to Guevara on his maternal side).