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

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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