That Sweet Word: Liberty!

In an unnamed Latin American country after a coup d'état, a military junta comes to power. The army deployed to the streets, the civilian population is exposed to hard terror. A wave of arrests follows, some former senators - liberals and communists - are sent to prison. Some patriots that have gone underground try to figure a plan for their release. They buy a small shop opposite the prison in the name of Francisco and Maria Vardes. From its basement they plan to build a 90-meter tunnel. Three years of enormous effort, deaths and nervous breakdowns are not spent in vain.

• Release date
• November 20, 1972
• Runtime
• 163 min
• Genres
• Mystery
• Director
• Vytautas Žalakevičius

Cast

Regimantas Adomaitis Francisco "Pancho" Vardes Irina Miroshnichenko Maria Ion Ungureanu Alberto Ramirez, communist senator Bronius Babkauskas Miguel Carrera, senator Lorents Arushanyan Walter Conde, senator Juozas Budraitis Felicio, blackmailer Mihai Volontir Carlos Caro Rodion Nahapetov Benedicto