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Neruda (2016)
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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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.
Rating:R
Genre:Drama
Written By:Guillermo Calderón
In Theaters:12/16/2016
Box Office:$939,101
Runtime:108 minutes
Studio:Participant, Funny Balloons, Ad hoc Studios, AZ Films, Casting del Sur, Reborn Production, Setembro Cine, Fabula, Telefe
Cast
Pablo Larraín
Director
Gael García Bernal
Oscar Peluchoneau
Luis Gnecco
Pablo Neruda
Mercedes Morán
Delia del Carril
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Picasso
Diego Muñoz
Martínez
Alejandro Goic
Jorge Bellet
Pablo Derqui
Victor Pey
Marcelo Alonso
Pepe Rodríguez
Michael Silva
Álvaro Jara
Francisco Reyes
Bianchi
Jaime Vadell
Jorge Alessandri
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