{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox film | image = Escape from Segovia.jpg | native_name = {{Infobox name module|es|La fuga de Segovia|nolink=yes}} | director = Imanol Uribe | 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 = Javier Aguirresarobe<br>(as Xabier Aguirresarobe) | 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 Basque 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<ref name="bvmc">{{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}}</ref> * Mario Pardo<ref name="bvmc" /> * Ovidi Montllor<ref name="bvmc" /> * {{ill|Chema Muñoz|es|lt=José María Muñoz}}<ref name="bvmc" /> * {{ill|José Pedro Carrión|es}}<ref name="bvmc" /> * José Manuel Cervino<ref name="bvmc" /> * {{ill|Virginia Mataix|es}}<ref name="bvmc" /> * Ramón Balenziaga<ref name="bvmc" /> * Imanol Gaztelumendi<ref name="bvmc" /> * {{ill|Klara Badiola|eu}}<ref name="bvmc" /> * {{ill|Elene Lizarralde|eu}}<ref name="bvmc" /> * Jesús María Lasa<ref name="bvmc" /> * {{ill|Patxi Bisquert|es}}<ref name="bvmc" /> * Santiago Ramos<ref name="bvmc" /> * Alex Angulo<ref name="bvmc" /> * Ramón Barea<ref name="bvmc" /> * Guillermo Montesinos<ref name="bvmc" /> * Txema Blasco<ref name="bvmc" /> * {{ill|Iñaki Aierra|eu}}<ref name="bvmc" /> }}
== Production == Uribe decided to make the film upon inspiration from the book ''Operación Poncho'' by {{ill|Ángel Amigo|eu}}.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It was released theatrically in Spain on 6 November 1981.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
== 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".<ref name="maslin">{{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'}}</ref>
== See also == * List of Spanish films of 1981
== References == {{reflist}}
Category:Films set in 1976 Category:Films about the Spanish Transition Category:1981 Spanish films Category:1981 Spanish-language films Category:Films shot in the Basque Country (autonomous community) Category:Films shot in the Province of Segovia Category:Films shot in Madrid Category:Films set in Castile and León Category:Spanish prison films Category:Films about prison escapes Category:Spanish drama films Category:Spanish-language drama films Category:1981 drama films Category:Films about ETA (separatist group)