Chicago Boys

Chicago Boys

85 mins | Documentary | Nov. 8, 2015

The economists behind the implementation of the most extreme capitalist system in the world observe with surprise the discontent of its countrymen. For the first time, they tell the story of how they became Milton Friedman's students in Chicago in the 1950s and what were they willing to do to pursue their extreme economic ideas, aided by Pinochet's dictatorship in the 70s. Unseen images and testimonies that allow us to understand the historic process that transformed the Chilean people and Chile in the country that it is today, an image of success and discontent.

Chicago Boys

85 mins | Documentary | Nov. 8, 2015

Chicago Boys
The economists behind the implementation of the most extreme capitalist system in the world observe with surprise the discontent of its countrymen. For the first time, they tell the story of how they became Milton Friedman's students in Chicago in the 1950s and what were they willing to do to pursue their extreme economic ideas, aided by Pinochet's dictatorship in the 70s. Unseen images and testimonies that allow us to understand the historic process that transformed the Chilean people and Chile in the country that it is today, an image of success and discontent.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers
Original title Chicago Boys
Directors Rafael Valdeavellano, Carola Fuentes
Writers Carola Fuentes

Cast

Joaquín Lavín

as Self - Minister of Social Development. Chicago Boy '79

Jaime Guzmán

as Self (archive footage)

Salvador Allende

as Self (archive footage)

Patricio Aylwin

as Self (archive footage)

Augusto Pinochet

as Self (archive footage)

Michelle Bachelet

as Self (archive footage)

Sebastián Piñera

as Self (archive footage)