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    Cronica De Una Fuga
    a.k.a. Buenos Aires, 1977, Chronicle of an Escape Director: Adrián Caetano, Israel Adrián Caetano Cast: Rodrigo de la Serna, Nazareno Casero, Lautaro Delgado, Matias Marmorato

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    • DVD Release Date: 08/19/2008
    • Original Release: 2005
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 9,926

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    The making of Chronicle of an Escape; A trip to Stockholm: Visiting exiled former captives; Claudio Tamburrini & Guillermo Fernández; Deleted scenes; Cast & crew biographies

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    Scene Index

    Disc #1 -- Chronicle of an Escape
    1. Manhunt [6:11]
    2. Captured [6:00]
    3. Imprisonment [5:01]
    4. Interrogation [6:21]
    5. New Roommate [7:04]
    6. A Word of Advice [6:56]
    7. Tano's Fate? [5:34]
    8. The Judge [6:56]
    9. Humiliation [6:55]
    10. Last Requests [11:24]
    11. A Final Prayer [1:27]
    12. Escape [10:15]
    13. In Search of Shelter [9:19]
    14. Rescued [6:48]
    15. Where Are They Now? [2:44]
    16. End Credits [4:39]

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    The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads during the 1970's is brought to the screen in this thriller. In 1977, Claudio Tamburrini (Rodrigo De La Serna) was a goalie for a minor league football team when he was abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he was a terrorist. Over 30,000 people lost their lives at the hands of Argentinean authorities under the military junta that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983, and as he was tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he didn't have, Tamburrini fully expected to become another victim. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo (Nazareno Casero) and Tano (Martin Urruty) were being readied for execution when in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dove out a window during a rainstorm. Guillermo, Tano and another man followed, and the four, naked and with noting but their wits, began a desperate run to freedom. A major box office success in Argentina, Croica De Una Fuga (aka Chronicle of an Escape and Buenos Aires 1977) received its North American premier at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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    August 25, 2008: One of the aspects of this excellent film from Argentina is the disturbing fact that it is based on actual events. Director Israel Adri&#225 n Caetano (with Esteban Student and Julian Loyola) created the screenplay from the main character's memoir - 'Pase libre' by Claudio Tamburrini - and in doing so bring a sense of immediacy and unfiltered truth to this tale of the 1977 military dictatorship in Argentina during the time of the 'Desaparecidos' or terminal evacuation/elimination of dissidents to the regime. CHRONICLE OF AN ESCAPE (Cr&#243 nica de una fuga) relates the capture of soccer goalie Claudio Tamburrini (Rodrigo de la Serna, remembered for his magnetic portrayal of Alberto in 'The Motorcycle Diaries') during a soccer game in 1977 when he was abducted, blindfolded, and taken to a house of detention as a suspected revolutionary. Claudio is beaten, interrogated, starved, and forced to live nude, blindfolded and in handcuffs chained to his palette along with other detainees - Guillermo Fern&#225 ndez (Nazareno Casero), El Gallego (Lautaro Delgado), El Vasco (Mat&#237 as Marmorato) and El Tano (Mart&#237 n Urruty). Each of the detainees is repeatedly tortured and deprived of the 'necessities' of living until after four months the group decides to escape. The tension of their ingenious escape provides the film with a tense and riveting closure, and at the end of the film the destinies of each of the detainees is revealed. Though the world knows some of the details of the military junta in Argentina that lasted from 1976 to 1985, observing the calamity in the form of real individual's who suffered pleads the case for understanding the atrocities better than simply reading media accounts. The manner in which Caetano directs his superb cast is enhanced by the extraordinary cinematography of Juli&#225 n Apeztegu&#237 a and the moody and creatively subtle musical score by Iv&#225 n Wyszogrod. The cast is uniformly excellent: though the men who play the evil torturers have not been named in this review they are all very strong actors. This is a tough movie to watch and the audience should be aware that the prisoners appear in the nude throughout the film (if that is a problem for some viewers). In Spanish with English subtitles. Very strongly recommended, especially in this time when the concept of 'detainees' is so very much in the public eye once again! Grady Harp