Chicago Boys
2015-11-08 | 85 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Joaquín LavínSelf - Minister of Social Development. Chicago Boy '79
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Jaime GuzmánSelf (archive footage)
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Salvador AllendeSelf (archive footage)
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Patricio AylwinSelf (archive footage)
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Augusto PinochetSelf (archive footage)
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Michelle BacheletSelf (archive footage)
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Sebastián PiñeraSelf (archive footage)
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