"Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny" (1973) TV mini-series

User Rating:

8.9/10   

Director:

Tatyana Lioznova

Writers:

Yulian Semyonov (novel)
Yulian Semyonov (screenplay)

Release Date:

13 December 1973 (East Germany)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | History | War

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...

Plot Keywords:

Spy | WWII | Suicide | Nazi Resistance | Manhunt

Cast

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

Also Known As:

"Семнадцать мгновений весны" (Soviet Union: Russian title)
"Seventeen Moments of Spring"

Runtime:

Soviet Union:840 min (12 parts)

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Color:

Black and White

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Company:

Gorky Film Studios

Trivia:

The two songs by Édith Piaf, that Stierlitz and Schlag listen to while driving to the border, were actually recorded in the '60s.

Quotes:

Heinrich Mueller: These days you can not believe anybody. Even yourself. You can believe me, though.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Novyy Odeon (1992)

Soundtrack:

Pesnya o dalyokoi Rodine

A TV series about the Soviet agent Stirlitz

If anyone would like to see a good TV Series he/she must see "17 moments of the Spring", where Viacheslav Tikhonov played wonderfully the role of the Soviet agent Stirlitz. In fact, this agent never existed, but he was like a compilation of those soviet agents (Kuznetsov, Sorge and others) who died fighting nazi occupation in the territories of former USSR. Leonid Bronevoi also played in excellent way the role of nazi officer Heinrich Mueller. The story of the series was like the one of cat vs mouse. Mueller always suspected of Tikhonov, but could prove nothing.

The soundtrack of the series is also melodic and easy to listen.