Neruda (2016)

Directed by

Pablo Larraín

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

Argentina, Chile, France, United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 280 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1948, the Chilean government cracks down on communists. The poet Pablo Neruda goes into hiding and flees across the Andes mountains on horseback. The film mixes real historical events with invented characters and situations.

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What happens

Neruda is a 2016 biographical drama film directed by Pablo Larraín. Mixing history and fiction, the film shows the dramatic events of the suppression of Communists in Chile in 1948 and how the poet, diplomat, politician and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda had to go on the run, eventually escaping on horseback over the Andes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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