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

Seasons:

1

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 | Fall Of The Third Reich | Intrigue | USA | Safe House

Cast

Vyacheslav Tikhonov	...	Stirlitz (12 episodes, 1973)
Yefim Kopelyan	...	Narrator (12 episodes, 1973)
Leonid Bronevoy	...	Müller (10 episodes, 1973)
Yekaterina Gradova	...	Kathe (9 episodes, 1973)
Rostislav Plyatt	...	Pastor Schlag (9 episodes, 1973)
Oleg Tabakov	...	Schellenberg (8 episodes, 1973)
Nikolai Prokopovich	...	Himmler (7 episodes, 1973)
Yuri Vizbor	...	Bormann / ... (6 episodes, 1973)
Mikhail Zharkovsky	...	Kaltenbrunner (6 episodes, 1973)
Leonid Kuravlyov	...	Eismann (5 episodes, 1973)
Wilhelm Burmeier	...	Göring (5 episodes, 1973)
Vasili Lanovoy	...	General Wolff (5 episodes, 1973)
Konstantin Zheldin	...	Holtoff (5 episodes, 1973)

Series Directed by
Tatyana Lioznova		(12 episodes, 1973)

Series Writing credits
Yulian Semyonov		(12 episodes, 1973)

Series Produced by
Zinovi Genzer	....	producer (unknown episodes, 1973)

Series Original Music by
Mikael Tariverdiyev		(12 episodes, 1973)

Series Cinematography by
Pyotr Katayev		(12 episodes, 1973)

Series Film Editing by
Kseniya Blinova		(12 episodes, 1973)
I. Dorofeyeva		(12 episodes, 1973)
V. Potapova		(12 episodes, 1973)

Series Production Design by
Boris Dulenkov		(11 episodes, 1973)

Series Costume Design by
Mariam Bykhovskaya		(12 episodes, 1973)

Series Makeup Department
E. Bochkaryov	....	makeup artist (12 episodes, 1973)
Valentina Pustovalova	....	makeup artist (12 episodes, 1973)

Series Production Management
Yefim Lebedinskiy	....	production manager (12 episodes, 1973)
David Prober	....	production manager (3 episodes, 1973)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ara Gabrielyan	....	assistant director (12 episodes, 1973)

Series Art Department
N. Fadeyeva	....	assistant production designer (12 episodes, 1973)
Vladislav Orlov	....	assistant production designer (12 episodes, 1973)
Feliks Rostotsky	....	assistant production designer (12 episodes, 1973)

Series Sound Department
Leonard Bukhov	....	sound (unknown episodes)

Series Visual Effects by
K. Alekseyev	....	camera operator: visual effects (12 episodes, 1973)
S. Peterson	....	designer: visual effects (12 episodes, 1973)
V. Osminkina	....	camera operator: visual effects (10 episodes, 1973)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
Aleksandr Garibyan	....	assistant cinematographer (12 episodes, 1973)
I. Proskurin	....	assistant cinematographer (12 episodes, 1973)
Anatoli Buravchikov	....	camera operator (5 episodes, 1973)
Arkadiy Goltsin	....	still photographer (4 episodes, 1973)

Series Music Department
Robert Rozhdestvensky	....	lyrics (12 episodes, 1973)
Yuri Silantyev	....	conductor: Dance & Symphony Orchestra of the Central Television and the All-Union Radio (6 episodes, 1973)
Martyn Nersesyan	....	conductor: State Symphony Cinema Orchestra (3 episodes, 1973)
Aleksandr Petukhov	....	conductor: State Symphony Cinema Orchestra (3 episodes, 1973)

Production Companies

• Gorky Film Studios
• Gosteleradio

Distributors

• Yleisradio (YLE) (1974) (Finland) (TV)
• Yleisradio (YLE) (1984) (Finland) (TV)

Special Effects

• ROTO Visual Studio (visual effects: restoration, rotoscoping, colorization)

Also Known As:

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:

Tatyana Lioznova is sure that Stirlitz's part would have "brought glory to any actor. Everything - the plot, the actors - worked for one character, Stirlitz. I told Tikhonov during filming, "Oh, Slava, this role will bring you stardom overnight!"

Quotes:

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

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Pozner: Stanislav Govorukhin (#3.6)" (2010)

Soundtrack:

Mgnoveniya

Opinion from Russia

One of the best films of Soviet Union. It is not about intrigues and spy games, though the plot is really gripping. Last months of WW II. Shtirliz - Soviet resident is under suspection of Gestapo. Being in the heart of Hitler's sistem, he struggled with hazi regime long years. The Third Reich bosses Himmler, Shellenberg, Wolf understand that their game is over, they try to save their own skin and seek for separate peace with USA and Great Britain. This treaty could be big calamity for Soviet people, and USSR secret service breakes ignouble plans of nazi. The famouse Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov (Prince Andej in "War and peace" by Bondarchuk) have excellent incarnated the interesting and very complicated character of Shtirliz. All other roles were played by the best actors of Soviet screen.

Some parts of film were shot in GDR. For the first time after WW II in Soviet cinema appeared the German soldier character, who was kind and humane person. Gestapo guard Helmut saved Russian secret service woman Katya with her child, but himself perished. This role was brillant played by GDR actor Otto Mellies.

"Seventeen moments of spring" is about people, who were cut off their home, country, families in order to fighting with nazi criminals.