They claim to be taken to maximum security prisons, but when government power and corruption intervene there is no impossible escape, such is the case of this story that everyone witnessed and that we now present.
Writing
Script written WHILE the real escape was happening.
Production
Shot on location in actual prisons with real guards.
Director
Arturo Martinez S.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months after the real 2001 escape, this was Mexico's fastest exploitation film ever produced—beating Hollywood's TV movie cycle by years.
Everado Licea was a complete unknown who got the role because he physically resembled El Chapo; he received death threats and never acted again.
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