The Motorcycle Diaries

  • Drama
2/6/2004
126
R

Let the world change you...and you can change the world.

Based 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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Ernesto Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal), affectionally nicknamed Fuser by his best friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) is about to join set off with him on an epic journey across South America on a rickety old Norton 500 motorcycle that has certainly seen better days. Their plan is to cover the over ten thousand kilometre distance between Buenos Aires and the northern tip of the continent, via Patagonia, before Granado reaches his thirtieth birthday. Their first stop is at the chateau-style home of his girlfriend Chichina (Mia Maestro) but thereafter it is just them, their machine, and the elements as they embark on quite an eye-opening road trip. Che Guevara is in the latter stages of training to be a doctor, specialising in leprosy,...

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