Korean Title: "Motorcycle Diary"
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Mia Maestro
Director: Robert Redford
Studio: KD Media (Korea)
Rating: R
Genre: Drama

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About This DVD

Based on a true life story, The Motorcycle Diaries is an inspiring and thrilling adventure that traces the youthful origins of a revolutionary spirit. The film follows two daring friends, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Gael Garc? Bernal, Y Tu Mam?Tambi?) and Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), who hop on the back of a beat-up motorcycle for a breathtaking and exciting road trip across Latin America. From executive producer Robert Redford and acclaimed director Walter Salles (Central Station) comes a life-changing journey that critics are hailing as "Magnificent!" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)

"One of the great films of this, or any year!" Jeffrey Lyons, WNBC-TV
"The best picture of the year!" Leonard Maltin, Entertainment Tonight
"Magnificent! A wild ride of a movie!" Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"A Classic road movie! " Stephen Holden, The New York Times

In 1952, a young medical student and a biochemist from Argentina set off on a road trip across South America. As they straddled their beaten up motorcycle, the men talked in awed tones of the sights they were about to experience. The record of their trip may have disappeared into the ether if one of the riders departing on that fateful day hadn't been the future insurrectionary figurehead of the Cuban revolution, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (played here by Gael Garcia Bernal).

The young Che's companion on the trip was his best friend, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), with their simple goals being to enjoy themselves, and meet some girls along the way. As the trip unfolds at the behest of their spluttering motorcycle, the boys discover more about themselves than they ever imagined possible. Ernesto clings tightly to his ideals throughout, and delights in the opportunity to put them into practice. His refusal to spend the $20 provided by his girlfriend, Chichina Ferreyra (Mia Maestro), constantly angers his travelling companion as the two succumb to pangs of hunger. Ernesto's charitable nature comes to the fore when he reveals that he gave the money to a pair of out-of-work illegal immigrants. The trip winds down as the friends offer their medical expertise to a leper colony in Peru, with the duo's youthful folly acquiescing to adulthood, and the dawning realization of where they should head in life.

Based on the books THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (by Guevara) and TRAVELLING WITH CHE GUEVARA (by Granado), director Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION) pulls some highly accomplished performances from his two leads. The South American landscape is breathtakingly captured on camera, with Salles vividly reproducing a continent beleaguered by poverty and disease, but containing a population in possession of an unshakeable sense of optimism, as beautifully personified by Guevara and Granado.

Audio Format:	DD 5.1 Surround, DTS
Video Format:	Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Languages:	Spanish
Subtitles:	English, Korean
Country Made:	USA
Region Code:	3
Year Made:	2004
Running Time:	120
Special Features:	- Featurette 'The Motorcycle Diarys : The Coming of Age of a Cultural Icon' - Cast & Crew Interviews - Alberto Granado Interview - Deleted Scenes - Trailer - Gallery
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