Fuga (film)

Fuga is a 2006 Chilean-Argentine drama film directed by Pablo Larraín.

[2] The story follows Eliseo Montalbán (Benjamín Vicuña) and his traumatic childhood experience of witnessing the tragic and horrifying death of his sister on a piano, combined with the accidental creation of a piece of music that he believes carries a curse of death.

As he matures, Eliseo eventually composes a masterpiece, a Rhapsody based on the haunting music, which tragically leads to the death of his love interest, the pianist Georgina (Francisca Imboden), moments after she starts performing it at a packed Municipal Theater in Santiago.

This event deeply torments Eliseo, and his mental anguish becomes so overwhelming that his father decides to confine him to an asylum, causing Eliseo to fade into obscurity.

Ricardo Coppa (Gastón Pauls) endeavors to retrieve Montalbán's cursed musical composition with the help of a group of musicians.