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In an unnamed Latin American country after a coup d'état, a military junta comes to power. The army deployed to the streets, the civilian population is exposed to hard terror. A wave of arrests follows, some former senators - liberals and communists - are sent to prison. Some patriots that have gone underground try to figure a plan for their release. They buy a small shop opposite the prison in the name of Francisco and Maria Vardes. From its basement they plan to build a 90-meter tunnel. Three years of enormous effort, deaths and nervous breakdowns are not spent in vain.Read moreLess
In an unnamed Latin American country after a coup d'état, a military junta comes to power. The army deployed to the streets, the civilian population is exposed to hard terror. A wave of arrests follows, some former senators - liberals and communists - are sent to prison. Some patriots that have gone underground try to figure a plan for their release. They buy a small shop opposite the prison in the name of Francisco and Maria Vardes. From its basement they plan to build a 90-meter tunnel. Three years of enormous effort, deaths and nervous breakdowns are not spent in vain.
The story
In an unnamed Latin American country after a coup d'état, a military junta comes to power. The army deployed to the streets, the civilian population is exposed to hard terror. A wave of arrests follows, some former senators - liberals and communists - are sent to prison. Some patriots that have gone underground try to figure a plan for their release. They buy a small shop opposite the prison in the name of Francisco and Maria Vardes. From its basement they plan to build a 90-meter tunnel. Three years of enormous effort, deaths and nervous breakdowns are not spent in vain.
Cast & crew
Regimantas AdomaitisFrancisco "Pancho" Vardes
Irina MiroshnichenkoMaria
Ion UngureanuAlberto Ramirez, communist senator
Bronius BabkauskasMiguel Carrera, senator
Lorents ArushanyanWalter Conde, senator
Juozas BudraitisFelicio, blackmailer
Mihai VolontirCarlos Caro
Rodion NahapetovBenedicto
Gemma FirsovaEllen Carrera
Igor PetrovадвокатExplore the crew
- Director
- Vytautas Žalakevičius
- Writer
- Vytautas Žalakevičius
- Writer
- Valentin Ezhov
- Director of Photography
- Vladimir Nakhabtsev
- Original Music Composer
- Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov