Chronicle of an Escape
(Cronica de una Fuga)
102 minutes, 2006
Tue. Oct 10, 9:15PM, Rafael
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In Spanish with English subtitles • Based on a true story, Chronicle of an Escape combines the tense excitement of psychological and escape thrillers with strong ensemble performances. Rodrigo de la Serna (Motorcycle Diaries) is Claudio, a soccer player and one of the thousands of Argentines abducted, tortured and disappeared by the country's 1976–1983 military dictatorship. Abducted in Buenos Aires in 1977 by a mysterious “task group,” Claudio is accused of being a leftist terrorist. At an abandoned villa on the city's outskirts he is interrogated for four months about activities he knows nothing about. He is repeatedly questioned, physically and psychologically tortured, stripped naked and thrown into an empty room with three other prisoners. Struggling desperately for sanity and survival, the four take a chance for escape. Carefully controlled cinematography deepens the atmosphere early on and ratchets up the pace later as internationally renowned director Israel Adrián Caetano's intense film races to its edge-of-the-seat conclusion. — M. Landazuri
Director: Israel Adrián Caetano
Producer: Oscar Kramer, Hugo Sigman
Screenwriter: Israel Adrián Caetano, Esteban Student, Julián Loyola
Cinematographer: Julián Apezteguia
Editor: Alberto Ponce
Cast: Rodrigo de la Serna, Nazareno Casero, Lautaro Delgado, MatÍas Marmorato, Pablo Echarri
Print Source: The Weinstein Company
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