Sweet Country

Jan 23, 1987

2h 30m

★ 4.4

«The best of us fight not because we hate...but because we love»

Overview

An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.

Genres

Drama

History

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Cast

Anna

Jane Alexander

Ben

John Cullum

Eva

Carole Laure

Paul

Franco Nero

Monica

Joanna Pettet

Juan

Randy Quaid

Mrs. Araya

Irene Papas

Mr. Araya

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Father Venegas

Pierre Vaneck

Sister Mathilde

Katia Dandoulaki

Dorothy

Ann Coleman

Max

Giannis Voglis

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

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