That Sweet Word: Liberty!

That Sweet Word: Liberty!
Directed by	Vytautas Žalakevičius
Written by	Valentin Yezhov Vytautas Žalakevičius
Starring	Lorents Arushanyan Regimantas Adomaitis Irina Miroshnichenko
Cinematography	Vladimir Nakhabtsev
Music by	Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Production companies	Mosfilm Lithuanian Film Studio
Release date	1972 (1972)
Running time	154 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

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.^[1] 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.