Chronicle of an Escape

Chronicle of an Escape (2006)

Crónica de una fuga

An Inside View of Political Detainees

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

Date of release
2006-04-27
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (83)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Adrián Caetano

Casting

Interesting facts

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Chronicle of an Escape, also known as Buenos Aires, 1977, is a 2006 Argentine historical drama film directed by Israel Adrián Caetano. The screenplay is written by Caetano, Esteban Student, and Julián Loyola, based on the autobiographical book Pase libre – la fuga de la Mansion Seré written by Claudio Tamburrini. The film was produced by Oscar Kramer and Hugo Sigman, and stars Rodrigo de la Serna, Pablo Echarri and Nazareno Casero. The film tells the true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of a military death squad during Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1976–1983).

Production

The film is based on a real political event that took place in Argentina during Jorge Rafael Videla's reactionary military junta, which came to be known as Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship. The dictatorship took over the government after a Coup on 24 March 1976. During the junta's rule, the Congress was suspended and unions, political parties and provincial governments were banned.

The film is about one such instance: the November 1977 kidnapping of Claudio Tamburrini, a goalkeeper of a B-league fútbol team, who's taken to a clandestine detention center and tortured. On 24 March 1978, Tamburrini escaped along with Guillermo Fernández, Carlos García Muñoz (El Gallego), and Daniel Rusomano (known as El Chino in the book), and wrote Pase libre – la fuga de la Mansion Seré, a harrowing account of his experience.

Before the production began director Israel Adrián Caetano traveled to meet Tamburrini in Stockholm, where he now lives, to learn the truth about the event. There he also met Fernández, who initiated the breakout. Both former prisoners collaborated with Caetano and the screenwriters and helped them to stick closely to the main theme of the film: survival.

The production was quite difficult according to Caetano, who stated that "the filming was an endless challenge: shooting almost entirely within four walls, trusting the outcome to the acting, the framing, and the light. It was not always easy to generate fear, paranoia, and neurosis from this prison. Our challenge was how to re-create the madness these prisoners endured".

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