Jailbreak Pact (2020)

Original title

Pacto de fuga

Directed by

David Albala

Genre

action film, thriller film

Country

Chile

Runtime

2h 17m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 113 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of prisoners plan and carry out a mass escape from a Santiago jail in 1990. The film follows them as they organize and execute the dangerous breakout.

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What happens

Jailbreak Pact (Spanish: Pacto de fuga) is a 2020 Chilean action thriller film directed by David Albala (in his directorial debut) who co-wrote the script along with Cecilia Ruz, Loreto Caro-Valdés and Susana Quiroz-Saavedra. It stars Benjamín Vicuña, Roberto Farías, Francisca Gavilán, Amparo Noguera, Víctor Montero, Diego Ruiz, Catalina Martín and Eusebio Arenas. It is inspired by the prison escape that occurred on 30 January 1990, known as Operation Success in the Public Jail of Santiago. The film was named on the shortlist for Chilean's entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not selected. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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