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That Sweet Word: Liberty!

4.4 163 mins Mystery   1972
Mosfilm   Lithuanian Film Studio  
Director(s): Vytautas Žalakevičius

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.

Casts of That Sweet Word: Liberty!

Regimantas Adomaitis

as Francisco "Pancho" Vardes

Ion Ungureanu

as Alberto Ramirez, communist senator

Bronius Babkauskas

as Miguel Carrera, senator

Lorents Arushanyan

as Walter Conde, senator

Juozas Budraitis

as Felicio, blackmailer

Mihai Volontir

as Carlos Caro

Rodion Nahapetov

as Benedicto

Gemma Firsova

as Ellen Carrera

Bob Chuprov-Tsymba

as Captain Rada

Kimma Mamadova

as seniora Rada

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