Chicago Boys (2015)

Chicago Boys (2015)

2015-11-08 Chile 85 Min. PG-13
7.6 10 votes

Overview

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.

Cast

Joaquín Lavín is Self - Minister of Social Development. Chicago Boy '79
Self - Minister of Social Development. Chicago Boy '79
Jaime Guzmán is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Salvador Allende is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Patricio Aylwin is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Augusto Pinochet is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Michelle Bachelet is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Sebastián Piñera is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)