The Motorcycle Diaries (film) The Motorcycle Diaries (film) The Motorcycle Diaries () is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla commander and revolutionary Che Guevara. The film recounts the 1952 expedition, initially by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. As well as being a road movie, the film is a coming-of-age film; as the adventure, initially centered on youthful hedonism, unfolds, Guevara discovers himself transformed by his observations on the life of the impoverished indigenous peasantry. Through the characters
Alberto Lysy Benedetta Origo, daughter of Iris Origo. One of his children, Antonio Lysy, became a renowned cellist and is the head of the music program at UCLA in Los Angeles. The renowned performer and teacher died in Lausanne on December 30, 2009; he was 74. Alberto Lysy Alberto Lysy (February 11, 1935 – December 30, 2009) was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor The violin gifted to him was a very old Stradivarius. Among his friends were Charlie Chaplin and family whose Swiss home M. Lysy visited for extended stays. Alberto Lysy was born in Buenos Aires to Ukrainian immigrants in