Chicago Boys

IMDb 7.6 2015 • 85 min • Documentary

Director

Rafael Valdeavellano

Country

CL

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.

Top Cast

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