The BAFTA award winning score by Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla. The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta) is a 2004 biopic film directed by Walter Salles about Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and Alberto Granada's 1952 motorcycle journey around South America, initially a hedonistic sojourn, but transforming into an observation of the inequity of Latin American society.