Crónica de una fuga

A true story of terror and survival from unique filmmaker Israel Adrián Caetano. Buenos Aires, 1977. A "task group" working for the fascist Argentine military govermment kidnaps Claudio Tamburrini, goalkeeper of a B-league soccer team, and takes him to a clandestine detention center known as Sere Mansion: a forbidding old mansion in the suburban neighbourhood of Moron. Claudio enters a living hell of interrogations, beatings, humiliations, betrayals. A nightmare world of lunatic arbitrary 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 seeming 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. Their flight into the future begins. (Cannes Film Festival)