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`Motorcycle Diaries' follows a journey and a political awakening.
Byline: Glenn Lovell
Published in 1993, a quarter century after its author's death, Ernesto "Che" Guevara's "The Motorcycle Diaries" achieved instant cult status with nascent revolutionaries thanks to its fervent call for a new Pan-Americanism. It also became required reading in many Latin American schools and quickly was optioned for screen treatment. And why not? The memoir reads like an exhilarating coming-of-age adventure and spiritual odyssey, not some dry political manifesto.
Eleven years later, "The Motorcycle Diaries" finally is reaching the screen as a $6 million road picture starring Mexico's Gael Garca Bernal as the 23-year-old medical student Ernesto. Argentina's Rodrigo de la Serna plays his traveling companion, Alberto Granado, whose "Traveling with Che Guevara" also was a source for the screenplay.
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