Neruda (film)

Neruda
Film poster
Directed byPablo Larraín
Written byGuillermo Calderón
Produced by
  • Renan Artukmac
  • Peter Danner
  • Fernando Del Nido
  • Juan Pablo García
  • Axel Kuschevatzky
  • Juan de Dios Larraín
  • Ignacio Rey
  • Gaston Rothschild
  • Jeff Skoll
  • Alex Zito
Starring
CinematographySergio Armstrong
Edited byHervè Schneid
Music byFederico Jusid
Production
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Distributed by
Release dates
  • 13 May 2016 (2016-05-13) (Cannes)
  • 11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) (Chile)
  • 23 September 2016 (2016-09-23) (Spain)
  • 16 December 2016 (2016-12-16) (United States)
  • 4 January 2017 (2017-01-04) (France)
Running time
107 minutes
Countries
  • Chile
  • Argentina
  • France
  • Spain
  • United States
LanguageSpanish
Box office$1.9 million

Neruda is a 2016 biographical drama film directed by Pablo Larraín. Mixing history and fiction, the film shows the dramatic events of the suppression of Communists in Chile in 1948 and how the poet, diplomat, politician and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda had to go on the run, eventually escaping on horseback over the Andes.