Jailbreak Pact (Spanish: Pacto de fuga) is a 2020 Chilean action thriler 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 January 30, 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.
Synopsis
In the Santiago Public Prison, 24 prisoners dug a tunnel more than 80 meters long, hiding 55 tons of earth inside the prison, which took them more than a year to build, using only a screwdriver. Neither the common prisoners in the nearby cells, nor the gendarmes who monitored them daily discovered the plan that would lead 49 inmates to achieve freedom in one of the most surprising escapes in Chilean criminal history.
Cast
The actors participating in this film are:
Benjamín Vicuña as León Vargas
Roberto Farías as Rafael Jiménez
Víctor Montero as Germán Sánchez
Francisca Gavilán as Paulina Baeza
Amparo Noguera as Fabiola Pizarro
Diego Ruiz as Oscar Lira
Eusebio Arenas as Dr. Patricio Velasquez
Mateo Iribarren as Prosecutor Andrade
Willy Semler as Warden Jorquera
Patricio Contreras as Rodolfo Ternicier
Roberto Peña as Lalo Sotomayor
Pablo Teillier as Mario Quezada
Gonzalo Canelo as "Bigote" Luis Dubó as Hugo Salgado Hugo Medina as Father Gerard Fovet Christian Quevedo as Sergeant Bravo - 'El Perro' Mauricio Rojas as Sergeant Arévalo - 'El Mozo' Edinson Díaz as Sergeant Castro - 'Paco Braulio' Jose Luis Aguilera as Sergeant González - 'Care'Poker' Catalina Martin as Quena Jorge Antezana as Pancho Antilef Eduardo Reyes as Emilio Muñoz Vladimir Huaquiñir as Nicolai Castillo Sebastián Ramírez as Xavier Rojas Pablo Muza as Benjamín Canto Sergio Díaz as José Caro Roberto Cobian as Luis Fernández Serge Santana as Sergio Llanos Mauricio Roa as "El Oso" César Quintanilla as "El Econo" Julio Fuentes as Alejandro Lira Miguel Toro as Benito Aliaga Alberto Ellena as Gastón Velásquez Amaia Cardemil as Matilde Simón Beltrán as Boris Jaime Muñoz as Joaquín Franco Vidal as Felipe Osorio Juan Díaz Garay as Cape Droguett Yerko García as Solorza
Production
Principal photography began on November 22, 2017, and ended on January 15, 2018, in Santiago, Chile.
Release
Jailbreak Pact was scheduled to premiere on October 24, 2019, in Chilean theaters, but it was delayed due to the social outbreak that occurred in Chile in October of that same year. Finally, it was released on January 23, 2020, in Chilean theaters.
Reception
Box-office
Jailbreak Pact sold 7,092 theater tickets on its first day of release. It increased to 125,626 viewers for its second week in theaters. By the fourth week, the film grossed $250,000. It ended its run in theaters having attracted 225,159 viewers to Chilean theaters.
Critical reception
Phuong Le from The Guardian highlights the acting work of the main actors who manage to be exciting, although they become overshadowed by other elements such as forced and overexposed dialogues. However, I concluded that it still manages to be entertaining and remarkable for David Albala's directorial debut.