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title: 'That Sweet Word: Liberty! (1973)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Vytautas Žalakevičius'
released: '1973-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 163
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
  - 'Lithuania'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/that-sweet-word-liberty-1973'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199503/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# That Sweet Word: Liberty! (1973)

1973 · 163 min · Drama · Soviet Union, Lithuania

Original title: Это сладкое слово — свобода!

## Synopsis

That Sweet Word: Liberty! 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Vytautas Žalakevičius](https://cinepixo.com/people/vytautas-zalakevicius)
- **Screenplay:** [Vytautas Žalakevičius](https://cinepixo.com/people/vytautas-zalakevicius), [Valentin Ezhov](https://cinepixo.com/people/valentin-ezhov)
- **Director of Photography:** [Vladimir Nakhabtsev](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-nakhabtsev)

## Cast

- [Irina Miroshnichenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/irina-miroshnichenko)
- [Rodion Nakhapetov](https://cinepixo.com/people/rodion-nakhapetov)
- [Regimantas Adomaitis](https://cinepixo.com/people/regimantas-adomaitis)
- [Juozas Budraitis](https://cinepixo.com/people/juozas-budraitis)

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