The Motorcycle Diaries

The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish: Diarios 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 America by Guevara and Granado, observing the life of the impoverished indigenous peasantry. Through the trip both of them witness the social classes struggle in Latin America. It stars Gael García Bernal (who had previously played Che in the 2002 miniseries Fidel) as Guevara, and Rodrigo de la Serna as Granado (Serna himself is second-cousin to Guevara on his maternal side). The film had its world premiere at