Synopsis
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
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Details
- Released
- 11 August 2016
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Director
- Pablo Larraín
- Writers
- Guillermo Calderón
- Box office
- $939,101
- Countries
- United States of America, Argentina, Chile, France, Spain
- Languages
- French, Spanish
- Production
- Participant, Funny Balloons, Ad hoc Studios, AZ Films, Casting del Sur, Reborn Production, Setembro Cine, Fabula, Telefe
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Cast
Gael García Bernal
Luis Gnecco
Mercedes Morán
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Diego Muñoz
Alejandro Goic
Pablo Derqui
Marcelo Alonso
Michael Silva
Francisco Reyes