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
1950s in film peak of his craft, with films such as "Strangers on a Train" (1951), "Dial M for Murder" (1954), "Rear Window" (1954), "To Catch a Thief" (1955), "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956), "Vertigo" (1958), and "North by Northwest" (1959), with James Stewart and Grace Kelly starring in three each. The Bengali Indian director Satyajit Ray, who began his career in the 1950s, was also at the peak of his career during this decade, with films such as "The Apu Trilogy" (1955–1959), "Jalsaghar" (1958), and "Parash Pathar" (1958). 1950s in film The decade of the 1950s in film involved many