Fuga (film)

Fuga is a 2006 Chilean-Argentine drama film directed by Pablo Larraín.[1] It is Larraín's directing debut.[2]

Fuga
Chilean theatrical release poster
Directed byPablo Larraín
Written by
  • Mateo Iribarren
  • Pablo Larraín
  • Hernán Rodríguez Matte
StarringBenjamín Vicuña
Gastón Pauls
Alfredo Castro
Release date
  • 27 March 2006 (2006-03-27)
Running time
110 minutes
CountriesChile
Argentina
LanguageSpanish

Plot

The story revolves around Eliseo Montalbán (Benjamín Vicuña), who as a child witnesses his sister's rape and murder on a piano while a musical piece is incidentally composed. This event causes him to grow up as a prodigy in music with an obsessive and disturbed personality, especially with the musical piece, which he later believes carries the death. Eventually, Eliseo composes a Rhapsody, his masterpiece. But when it is premiered, his love interest, the pianist Georgina (Francisca Imboden), dies moments after beginning to perform it in front of a packed Santiago Municipal Theater. This causes intense mental torment, and his father locks him up in a mental institution, where Eliseo falls into clandestinity and obscurity.

As a tormented Eliseo remains in hiding after escaping the mental institution, Ricardo Coppa (Gastón Pauls) and a group of musicians try to recover Montalbán's musical piece and make it their own, without realizing they are in danger.

Cast

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