The Motorcycle Diaries is a 2004 biographical coming-of-age road film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by José Rivera, based on Che Guevara's 1995 memoir of the same name and Alberto Granad
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The Daily Telegraph remarked that "the scenes at Machu Picchu are worth watching several times over."
The Motorcycle Diaries is a posthumously published memoir of the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. It traces his early travels as a 23-year-old medical student with his friend Alb
The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
…de motocicleta) is a 2004 biographical coming-of-age road film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by José Rivera, based on Che Guevara's 1995 memoir of the same name and Alberto Granado's memoir Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary. The film recounts the 1952 expedition, initially by motorcycle, across South…
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Guevara setting out on a 2,800 mile solo motorbike trip through the Argentine Northwest in 1950
Guevara (left) kick starts La Poderosa whilst holding the handlebars
Guevara (right) with Alberto Granado (left) aboard their Mambo-Tango wooden raft on the Amazon River in June 1952. The raft was a gift from the lepers whom they had treated.