The Motorcycle Diaries

2004 • 2h 6m •

Drama

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Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

"Let the world change you...and you can change the world."

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Gael García Bernal

Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna

Rodrigo de la Serna

Alberto Granado

Mercedes Morán

Celia de la Serna

Mía Maestro

Chichina Ferreyra

Jean Pierre Noher

Ernesto Guevara Lynch

Lucas Oro

Roberto Guevara

Marina Glezer

Celita Guevara

Sofia Bertolotto

Ana María Guevara

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2025-09-25

Ernesto Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal), affectionally nicknamed “Fuser” by his best friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) is about to join set off with him on an epic journey across South America on a rickety old Norton 500 motorcycle that has certainly seen better days. Their plan is to cover the over ten thousand kilometre distance between Buenos Aires and the northern tip of the continent, via Patagonia, before Granado reaches his thirtieth birthday. Their first stop is at the chateau-style home of his girlfriend Chichina (Mia Maestro) but thereafter it is just them, their machine...