That Sweet Word: Liberty! (1973)
- Original title
- Это сладкое слово - свобода!
- Directed by
- Vytautas Žalakevičius
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Soviet Union, Lithuania
- Runtime
- 2h 43m
- Rating
- 4.9 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Three political prisoners escape from a Venezuelan prison and attempt to flee to freedom. The film follows their dangerous journey.
suspensefulurgenttensepolitically chargedheroicdramaticrealistic
What happens
That Sweet Word: Liberty! (Russian: Это сладкое слово — свобода!, translit. Eto sladkoye slovo — svoboda!) is a 1972 Soviet thriller film co-written and directed by Vytautas Žalakevičius. The second part of the "Latin American trilogy", of which the first film was The Whole Truth about Columbus and the final one Centaurs. It was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Golden Prize. The film was shot in Chile shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The basis for the plot is a real story: the escape from San-Carlos prison in Venezuela of three political prisoners — Guillermo García Ponce, Pompeyo Márquez and Teodoro Petkoff. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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