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Chicago Boys

Chicago Boys

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 8, 2015

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

76%

Original Title

Chicago Boys

Director

Rafael Valdeavellano

Description

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.