'' That Sweet Word : Liberty ! '' ( , translit . Eto sladkoye slovo - svoboda ! ) is a 1973 Soviet drama film 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 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
8th Moscow International Film Festival
8th Moscow International Film Festival
That Sweet Word: Liberty!