Synopsis
Pacto de Fuga (2020) is a Chilean prison-break thriller you can watch online on iFILM. The screenwriters didn't have to invent much: in the final stretch of the dictatorship, a group of political prisoners spent a year and a half tunnelling their way out of Santiago's main jail.
It's 1990, the general still has the country by the throat, and anyone who crossed the regime is locked away. Militants tied to the underground Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front set out to do the impossible — walk dozens of inmates out at once. They dig by hand, metre by metre, eighteen months of it, with guards a wall away. Benjamín Vicuña and Roberto Farías play men for whom a single slip means a bullet.
Director David Albala skips the chases for something tighter — a drama about patience, trust and the cost of one mistake, where 135 minutes of tension build out of silence and the fear of being heard. Made for anyone who loved a methodical escape like The Shawshank Redemption but wants the real weight of Latin American history behind it. Stream Pacto de Fuga online on iFILM.
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