The Motorcycle Diaries (film)

• Gael García Bernal: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
• Rodrigo de la Serna: Alberto Granado
• Mía Maestro: Chichina Ferreyra
• Mercedes Morán: Celia de la Serna
• Jean Pierre Noher: Ernesto Guevara Lynch

The Motorcycle Diaries ( Original title: Diarios de motocicleta ) is an American feature film by the Brazilian director Walter Salles 's 2004 The multi-award -winning road movie based on the records of a South American trip, the young Che Guevara and Alberto Granado. . The main roles were played by Gael García Bernal and Rodrigo de la Serna.

Action

The 23 -year-old Ernesto Guevara is a medical student in Buenos Aires and is in 1952, when he only had one semester prior to coming to an end, together with his friend Alberto Granado 29 years old, a student of biochemistry, on a trip to the northern tip of the continent South America. You begin the nine -month journey with the " Almighty ", an old 500 cc Norton motorcycle. When they refused their service, we continue on foot, by boat and pickup. During this trip the two young men get to know Latin America. The many contradictions of the continent, poverty and wealth, oppression and injustice, but also tradition and vitality can be Ernesto and Alberto to thoughtful men. It also highlights the critical attitude Guevara against the Catholic Church.

Reviews

• " Road movie about finding young people to find their place in life, inspired by true experiences, filmed in beguiling landscapes and an emotionally gripping production, which ensures that virtually the same " that in naive " eyes like the later revolutionary leader Che Guevara similar form discovered today still existing misery of the continent. " ( filmdienst )

• " In this thin film is really about namely about anything, not even to adventure. It catches on the casualness of travel memories and can only very rarely and then clumsily associate with acquired retrospectively ' historical dimension '. Obviously, the director and his prominent co-producer Robert Redford had prior history and politics very afraid. " ( Diedrich Diederichsen Time )

• "The film is [ ... ] a successful, gentler political commentary on the situation in South America and uses the mythic potential of the historical figure who as called for no other, the unity of the continent and fought for it. The German title, The Motorcycle Diaries, however, is misleading. The political aspect of the film is not conveyed by the figure of Che Guevara, but by the presentation of the peoples of South America and their life circumstances. " ( Critic.de )

Awards

The Motorcycle Diaries took at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival in competition for the Palme d'Or in part but was beaten 9/11, Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit. The film in Cannes Prices Nevertheless received; Éric Gautier won the Technology Award for his camera work on The Motorcycle Diaries and Clean, the film itself was awarded the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the François Chalais Prize. On other film festivals, the film was a great success, among other things, the Bangkok International Film Festival, the Norwegian International Film Festival and the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Ten times the film was nominated for the award of the Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards in 2005 and won in three categories, Best Actor ( Rodrigo de la Serna ), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Music. The Goya received the film in the category Best Adapted Screenplay. For the best adapted screenplay, the film was also nominated for an Oscar. The Oscar Jorge Drexler won for his song Al otro lado del río, which thus was the first Spanish-language song, which was awarded the Oscar. At the Independent Spirit Awards Rodrigo de la Serna won for Best Acting Debut, Éric Gautier for Best Cinematography.

In seven categories The Motorcycle Diaries nominations at the British Academy Film Awards. As a Best Foreign Language Film and Best Music, he was awarded. For the French César Film Awards, the film was nominated for best foreign film, but could not prevail against Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation itself. Likewise the film at the European Film Award for Best Non- European film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.