
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.
Cast

Gael García Bernal
Oscar Peluchoneau

Luis Gnecco
Pablo Neruda

Mercedes Morán
Delia del Carril

Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Picasso

Diego Muñoz
Martínez

Alejandro Goic
Jorge Bellet

Pablo Derqui
Victor Pey

Marcelo Alonso
Pepe Rodríguez

Michael Silva
Álvaro Jara

Francisco Reyes
Bianchi

Jaime Vadell
Jorge Alessandri

Néstor Cantillana
Unknown

Alfredo Castro
Gabriel González Videla

Marcial Tagle
Unknown

Amparo Noguera
Drunk Woman

Cristián Campos
Unknown

Víctor Montero
Rubén Azócar

Héctor Noguera
Unknown

Luis Vitalino Grandón
Border guard in Argentina

Roberto Farías
Unknown

Julio Jung
Unknown

Julio Milostich
Radio Interviewer

Paola Lattus
Unknown

José Soza
Senator

Ariel Mateluna
Unknown

Cristián Chaparro
Unknown

Pablo Schwarz
Unknown

Luis Dubó
Unknown

Ximena Rivas
Unknown
Felipe Ríos
Unknown
Claudia Vicuña
Unknown

Francisca Imboden
Unknown

Trinidad González
Unknown
Juan Ossa
Unknown

Álvaro Espinoza
Unknown
Mario Soto
Unknown

Daniel Antivilo
Unknown
Roberto Cayuqueo
Unknown
Jorge Yáñez
Unknown

Claudio Arredondo
Unknown
Nicolás Torres
Unknown
Heidrun Breier
Unknown
Nicolás Botinelli
Unknown
Elsa Poblete
Unknown
Víctor Hugo Ogaz
Unknown

Hernán Lacalle
Unknown

Claudia Cabezas
Unknown
Josefina Dagorret
Unknown

Daniel de la Vega
Unknown
Senén Selim
Unknown
Crew

Pablo Larraín
Director

Guillermo Calderón
Screenplay

Hervé Schneid
Editor, Music Editor
Sebastián Sepúlveda
Additional Editing
Sergio Armstrong
Director of Photography
María José Droguett
Second Assistant Director

Waldo Salgado
Second Second Assistant Director
Mariane Hartard
Executive Producer
Rocío Jadue
Executive Producer

Axel Kuschevatzky
Producer
Renan Artukmac
Producer
Eduardo Castro
Line Producer, Production Director
Pablo Pinto
Production Assistant

Estefania Larrain
Production Design
Nicolás 'Pape' Bórquez
Assistant Camera
Mathieu Caudroy
Steadicam Operator
Darío Trivino
Steadicam Operator
Moira Miller
Casting Director
Muriel Parra
Costume Design
Carolina Espina
Costume Assistant
Nicole Guzman
Costume Assistant
Margarita Marchi
Hair Department Head, Makeup Department Head
Valeria Goffreri
Assistant Makeup Artist
Sebastián Radic
Second Unit Director
Víctor Rojas
Second Unit Director of Photography, Gaffer
Pamela Chamorro
Assistant Art Director
Miguel Hormazábal
Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ivo Moraga
Sound Editor, Foley
Kevin Colman Bertoni
Sound Editor
Roberto Zuñiga
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Andrés Carrasco
Sound Assistant
Romina Nuñez
Boom Operator
Toño Cubillo
ADR Editor
Tomas Roca
Visual Effects Supervisor
Carlos Cabezas
Original Music Composer

Federico Jusid
Original Music Composer
Fernando Julio
Musician
María Eugenia Hederra
Set Decoration
Antonieta Corvalán
Assistant Set Decoration
Eliseo Altunaga
Script Consultant
Horacio Donoso
Location Manager
Nicolás San Martín
Location Assistant
Wernher Schurmann
Fight Choreographer
Simon Briceño
Property Master
Casandra Campos
Continuity
Olivier Sargatal
Gaffer
Alejandro Wise
Production Manager
Pierre-Axel Vuillaume-Prézeau
Unit Production Manager

Lorena Penjean
Researcher
Jonathan Maldonado
Focus Puller
Zaghini Flora
First Assistant Editor
Fernanda Urrutia
Graphic Designer
Mario Ricci
Other
Daniel Santa Ana
Other
Simón Kaulen
Other

Andrea Chignoli
Thanks

Andrés Wood
Thanks

Sebastián Silva
Thanks

Marialy Rivas
Thanks

Sebastián Lelio
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