However, some of the parents consider it a "leftist venture" instead of a Christian, charitable effort.
Gonzalo attends a private school where the determined school principal, Father McEnroe, has initiated a social integration project. Gonzalo's mother, on the other hand, is resigned to the state of affairs and is having an affair with a wealthy and much older Argentinean. While Gonzalo's father is sympathetic to the less fortunate and not part of the right-wing movement, he wants to take his family to Italy, where he often travels for his work at the UN FAO. In this context, the wealthy classes became afraid of the socialist movement, and some of its most prominent members conspired against the government of Salvador Allende. The working class was demanding social justice and significant changes to the country's socioeconomic structure after electing a socialist president. The story is told from the viewpoint of Gonzalo Infante, an 11-year-old upper-class boy, and it is set in a turbulent time in Chile. It was well received in theaters in Chile and a few other countries, but did not have notable box office success outside of Latin America. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight parallel section of the 57th Cannes Film Festival in May 2004. Production companies included Andrés Wood Producciones, Tornasol Films, Mamoun Hassan, Paraíso, and Chile Films. It is a joint Chilean-Spanish-British-French international co-production with support from Ibermedia. Machuca was filmed in July 2003 and produced on a moderate budget of US$1,700,000.
who from 1969 to 1973 was the director of Colegio Saint George ( Saint George's College), the private school depicted in the movie, which the director himself attended as a boy.
The film is inspired by and dedicated to Father Gerardo Whelan, C.S.C. They are classmates and become friends at this English-language Catholic elite school, which Machuca attends thanks to the social integration project developed by its director, Father McEnroe. Set in Santiago during the months leading up to the 1973 coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet – which overthrew Salvador Allende's socialist government – the film tells the story of two boys who attend an upper-class elementary school: Gonzalo Infante – who belongs to a rich family with a European background – and Pedro Machuca – who is poor and comes from an indigenous background. It stars Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, and Aline Küppenheim alongside Federico Luppi. Machuca is a 2004 internationally co-produced coming-of-age drama film co-written and directed by Andrés Wood.
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