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.
Genre: Mystery
Stars: Regimantas Adomaitis, Irina Miroshnichenko, Ion Ungureanu, Bronius Babkauskas, Lorents Arushanyan, Juozas Budraitis
Crew: Vytautas Zalakevicius (Director), Vytautas Zalakevicius (Writer), Valentin Yezhov (Writer), Vladimir Nakhabtsev (Director of Photography), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (Original Music Composer)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Lietuvių, Pусский
Studio: Lithuanian Film Studio, Mosfilm
Runtime: 163 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 20, 1972
IMDb: 6.6
Keywords:political detective
