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Neruda

Release Date:December 16, 2016

Running Time:108 min

Genres:Drama

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Cast

Gael García Bernal Luis Gnecco Mercedes Morán Emilio Gutiérrez Caba Diego Muñoz Alejandro Goic Pablo Derqui Marcelo Alonso Michael Silva Francisco Reyes Jaime Vadell Néstor Cantillana

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Synopsis

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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