Austin Film Festival 2006

Regional Premiere Chronicle of an Escape is a true story of terror and survival from filmmaker Israel Adrián Caetano. A “task force” working for the fascist Argentinean military government 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 building in the suburban neighborhood of Moron. Claudio enters a living hell of interrogations, beatings, humiliations, and betrayals - a nightmare world of arbitrary lunatic rules and relentless violence, both mental and physical. Alongside other young detainees, he battles to survive while waiting for his fate to be decided. After four months of imprisonment, with execution looking certain, Claudio and three other prisoners make their desperate move to escape.