Mumbai

BUENOS AIRES 1977

Original Name: Cronica De Una Fuga

Director: Israel Adrián Caetano

Country: Argentina

Original Language: Spanish

Subtitle: English

Duration: 100min

Genre: Crime / Thriller

Print Type: Color

DVD Price: Rs 349/-

Writer: Israel Adrián Caetano, Esteban Student & Julián Loyola

Producer: Oscar Kramer & Hugo Sigman

Cinematographer: Julián Apezteguia

Music Composer: Ivan Wyzsogrod

Synopsis:

A ‘task force’ working for the fascist Argentine military government kidnaps, Claudio, the goalkeeper of a B-league soccer team, and takes him to a clandestine detention centre known as Sere Mansion: a forbidding old building in the suburban neighbourhood of Moron. Claudio enters a living hell of interrogations, beatings, humiliations & betrayals. A nightmare world of arbitrary lunatic rules and relentless violence, mental and physical. Alongside other young detainees, he battles to survive while awaiting his fate to be decided. After four months of imprisonment, with execution looking certain, Claudio and three other prisoners make their desperate move. Forcing open a window in the middle of a thunderstorm, completely naked, they jump into the void and their flight into the future begins.

Awards:

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

NOMINEE

PALME D’OR

FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

NOMINEE

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM, 2007

GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS

OFFICIAL ENTRY – ARGENTINA

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM, 2007

Review:

“A suspenseful drama of captivity and escape, the movie is a carefully paced, persuasively acted thriller” Stephen Holden, New York Times

“Thoroughly gripping, captivating” The Hollywood Reporter