Escape from Segovia

{{Infobox film

| image = Escape from Segovia.jpg

| native_name = {{Infobox name module|es|La fuga de Segovia|nolink=yes}}

| based_on = {{Based on|Operación Poncho|Ángel Amigo}}

| screenplay = {{ubl|Ángel Amigo|Imanol Uribe}}

| producer = Ángel Amigo

| starring = {{ubl|Xabier Elorriaga|Mario Pardo|Ovidi Montllor|José María Muñoz|José Pedro Carrión|José M. Cervino|Virginia Mataix|Ramón Balenziaga|Imanol Gaztelumendi|Klara Badiola|Elene Lizarralde|Jesús Mari Lasa}}

| cinematography = Xabier Agirresarobe

| editing = Julio Peña

| music = {{ubl|Xabier Lasa|Amaia Zubiria}}

| country = Spain

| language = Spanish

| released = {{Film date|1981|09||Zinemaldia|1981|11|06|Spain|df=yes}}

}}

Escape from Segovia ({{langx|es|La fuga de Segovia|links=no}}) is a 1981 Spanish prison-break film directed by Imanol Uribe from a screenplay by Ángel Amigo and Uribe consisting of a dramatized account of the 1976 Segovia prison break. The cast is led by Xabier Elorriaga, Mario Pardo, and Ovidi Montllor.

Plot

The plot explores the jailbreak of about 30 prisoners, the majority of them ETA members, from the Segovia prison in April 1976.{{Sfn|Barrenetxea Marañón|2008|pp=25–26}}

Cast

{{Cast listing|

Xabier Elorriaga{{Cite web|url=https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/alece/registro_pelicula/?id=1427|via=Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes|title=La fuga de Segovia · España 1981|access-date=16 August 2024|website=Adaptaciones de la literatura española en el cine español. Referencias y bibliografía|archive-date=16 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816144848/https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/alece/registro_pelicula/?id=1427|url-status=live}}
Mario Pardo
Ovidi Montllor
{{ill|Chema Muñoz|es|lt=José María Muñoz}}
{{ill|José Pedro Carrión|es}}
José Manuel Cervino
{{ill|Virginia Mataix|es}}
Ramón Balenziaga
Imanol Gaztelumendi
{{ill|Klara Badiola|eu}}
{{ill|Elene Lizarralde|eu}}
Jesús María Lasa
{{ill|Patxi Bisquert|es}}
Santiago Ramos
Alex Angulo
Ramón Barea
Guillermo Montesinos
Txema Blasco
{{ill|Iñaki Aierra|eu}}

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Production

Uribe decided to make the film upon inspiration from the book Operación Poncho by {{ill|Ángel Amigo|eu}}.{{Cite journal|url=https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/11389/1/Quaderns_Cine_N2_03.pdf|journal=Quaderns de Cine|issn=1888-4571|location=San Vicente del Raspeig|publisher=Universidad de Alicante|issue=2|year=2008|page=25|title=La Transición y ETA: La fuga de Segovia (1981)|first=Igor|last=Barrenetxea Marañón}} Shooting locations included the old school of Los Escolapios in Tolosa, as well as various locations in Orendain, Urnieta, Segovia, Madrid, Zumarraga, and Legazpi.{{Sfn|Barrenetxea Marañón|2008|p=25}}

Release

The film premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 1981.{{Cite web|website=El País|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-09-30/cuarenta-anos-de-una-evasion-de-pelicula-la-fuga-de-segovia.html|title=Cuarenta años de una evasión de película: ‘La fuga de Segovia’|date=30 September 2021|first=Rocío|last=García|access-date=16 August 2024|archive-date=16 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816150351/https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-09-30/cuarenta-anos-de-una-evasion-de-pelicula-la-fuga-de-segovia.html|url-status=live}} It was released theatrically in Spain on 6 November 1981.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20211104/historia-nuestro-cine-repasa-filmografia-imanol-uribe/2214360.shtml|website=rtve.es|title='Historia de nuestro cine' repasa la filmografía de Imanol Uribe|date=4 November 1981|access-date=16 August 2024|archive-date=16 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816144848/https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20211104/historia-nuestro-cine-repasa-filmografia-imanol-uribe/2214360.shtml|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|chapter=Filmografía|title=Cultura de masas y cambio político: El cine español de la transición|publisher=Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas|location=Madrid|isbn=84-7476-286-3|year=1999|first=Manuel|last=Trenzado Romero|page=336}}

Reception

Janet Maslin of The New York Times considered that the film "unfolds in a careful considered style, avoiding sensationalism and concentrating on the fine points of the prisoners' complicated plan".{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/06/movies/film-basque-escape-from-segovia.html|website=The New York Times|author-link=Janet Maslin|first=Janet|last=Maslin|date=6 June 1984|title=Film: Basque 'Escape from Segovia'}}