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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Yulian Semyonov (novel)
Yulian Semyonov (screenplay)
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Release Date:
13 December 1973 (East Germany) more
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Plot:
The series is based on a true story of a Russian spy Colonel Isaev (Stirlitz) in Fascist Germany during 17 days in very end of WWII... more
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User Comments:
Absolutely perfect! A must see. more (13 total)

Cast

  (Series Cast overview, first billed only)
Vyacheslav Tikhonov ... Max Otto von Stierlitz (Col. Maxim Isayev)
Leonid Bronevoy ... Heinrich Mueller
Evgeni Evstigneev ... Professor Werner Pleischner
Mikhail Zharkovsky ... Ernst Kaltenbrunner (as M. Zharkovsky)
Rostislav Plyatt ... Pastor Schlag
Yekaterina Gradova ... Kathie Kinn / Katya Kozlova
Oleg Tabakov ... Walter Schellenberg
Nikolai Prokopovich ... Heinrich Himmler
Yuri Vizbor ... Martin Bormann
Svetlana Svetlichnaya ... Gabi Nabel
Emiliya Milton ... Frau Saurich
Nikolai Volkov Ml. ... Erwin - Kathie's Husband
Lev Durov ... Agent Klaus
Vasili Lanovoy ... Karl Wolff
Olga Soshnikova ... Barbara Krein
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Семнадцать мгновений весны (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Seventeen Moments of Spring
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Runtime:
Soviet Union:840 min (12 parts)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The two songs by Édith Piaf, that Stierlitz and Schlag listen to while driving to the border, were actually recorded in the '60s. more
Quotes:
Cure: [dictating a letter to Vatican to a cleric scribe] ... And Pastor Schlag or his angelic image... more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Gitler kaput! (2008) more
Soundtrack:
Pesnya o dalyokoi Rodine more

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20 out of 20 people found the following comment useful.
Absolutely perfect! A must see., 20 February 2001
10/10
Author: Stanislav (stanislav67@hotmail.com) from Toronto, Canada

This movie is one of the top 10 movies for any Russian. Even if you are a foreigner, if you have subtitles or other mean of understanding the plot - you will be stick to your chair for all 11 (is it 11 or 13?) episodes.

The book of Semenov was great and the movie is even better. Great actors, who knew what the war is and how to show it. Amazingly intense plot, without any special effect, all rooted in the chess game between a Russian spy and German (nazi) opponents. Stylish black and white. In 1973 it was common, now it just looks good, as a true documentary.

What else? Music is perfectly suited to the moment and the whole movie is not seeking to draw a line between "good" and "bad" guys but, instead, trying to draw you into the tense atmosphere of the last 3 months preceding the end of WW2.

If you ask a few Russians in the street of Moscow or any other city what number 17 means to him, I bet $100 that over 90% will say "17 Moments of Spring" which stands for "Semnadtsat mgnovenij vesny".

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