Chronicle of an Escape
“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.
A chillingly realistic portrayal of state-sponsored terror. The film grips you with its raw intensity and the suffocating dread of wrongful imprisonment. It's a harrowing testament to the human will to survive against impossible odds.
