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That Sweet Word: Liberty! (1972)

Directed by Vytautas Žalakevičius

Overview

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.

Length 163 minutes

Actors

Regimantas Adomaitis | Irina Miroshnichenko | Ion Ungureanu | Bronius Babkauskas | Lorents Arushanyan | Juozas Budraitis | Mihai Volontir | Rodion Nahapetov | Dzhemma Firsova | Bob Cimba | Kimma Mamadova