Neruda
Neruda is a 2016 internationally co-produced biographical drama film directed by Pablo Larraín. Mixing history and fiction, the film shows the dramatic events of the brutal suppression of Communists in Chile in 1948 and how the poet Pablo Neruda had to go on the run, eventually escaping on horseback over the Andes.
Plot
After winning the 1946 election with the support of the Communists, Chile's president turns against them, bans the party and orders mass arrests. The senator Pablo Neruda, former ambassador and well-known poet, speaks out forcefully against the repression. Warned that he is in danger, with his wife Delia he takes the road through the mountains to Argentina, but they are turned back at the frontier and have to go into hiding.
Cast
- Alejandro Goic
- Alfredo Castro
- Álvaro Espinoza
- Amparo Noguera
- Ariel Mateluna
- Claudia Cabezas
- Claudio Arredondo
- Cristián Campos
- Diego Muñoz
- Elsa Poblete
- Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
- Felipe Ríos
- Francisca Imboden
- Francisco Reyes Morandé
- Gael García Bernal
- Héctor Noguera
- Heidrun Breier
- Jaime Vadell
- Jorge Yáñez
- José Soza
- Julio Jung
- Julio Milostich
- Luis Dubó
- Luis Gnecco
- Marcelo Alonso
- Marcial Tagle
- Mercedes Morán
- Néstor Cantillana
- Pablo Derqui
- Paola Lattus
- Roberto Farías Morales
- Victor Montero
- Ximena Rivas
More details
author | Guillermo Calderón |
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contentLocation | Paris |
director | Pablo Larraín |
editor | Hervé Schneid |
genre | drama |
keywords | cat and mouse communist communist party of chile dedicate hide pablo picasso press conference win |
musicBy | Federico Jusid |
producer | Alex Zito Axel Kuschevatzky Fernando Del Nido Gaston Rothschild Ignacio Rey Jeff Skoll Juan de Dios Larrain Juan Pablo García Peter Danner Renan Artukmac |
productionCompany | AZ Films Casting del Sur Fabula Funny Balloons Participant Media Reborn Production Stembro Cine Televisión Federal |
publisher | 20th Century Fox |
theme | biographical biographical drama chase |