JAILBREAK PACT

PACTO DE FUGA

By David ALBALA

WING SIGHT CULTURE & MEDIA CO., LTD - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, CHINA

Drama - Completed 2020

"JAILBREAK PACT" is the story of one of the most surprising prison breaks of all time, which happened in Chile in January 1990, just one month before the end of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama, Thriller
    • Countries
    • CHILE
    • Duration
    • 138 mn
    • Director(s)
    • David ALBALA
    • Synopsis
    • On the night of January 29, 1990, shortly before the start of democratic transition period in Chile, dozens of political prisoners escaped from jail in Santiago, through a tunnel that 24 militants of the Manuel RodrÍíguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) had dug for 18 months, over 80 meters long with rudimentary tools like spoons, forks and one screwdriver, and hiding 55 tons of dirt inside the penitentiary. Neither the common prisoners in the nearby cells, nor the prison guards who guarded daily, discovered the plan that would lead to the freedom of 49 prisoners, in one of the most surprising and spectacular jailbreaks in Chilean criminal history.