That Sweet Word: Liberty!

{{Short description|1972 film by Vytautas Žalakevičius}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = That Sweet Word: Liberty!

| image = That Sweet Word Liberty.jpg

| caption =

| director = Vytautas Žalakevičius

| producer =

| writer = Valentin Yezhov
Vytautas Žalakevičius

| starring = Lorents Arushanyan
Regimantas Adomaitis
Irina Miroshnichenko

| music = Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

| cinematography = Vladimir Nakhabtsev

| editing =

| studio = Mosfilm
Lithuanian Film Studio

| distributor =

| released = {{film date|1972}}

| runtime = 154 minutes

| country = Soviet Union

| language = Russian

| budget =

}}

That Sweet Word: Liberty! ({{langx|ru|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.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1973 |title=8th Moscow International Film Festival (1973) |access-date=25 December 2012 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194922/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1973 |archive-date=16 January 2013}} 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.