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Seventeen Moments of SpringRussian DVD CoverGenreEspionage Thriller Created by Julian Semenov Based OnProfile Moments Springby Ulyana SemenovaScreenplay by Julian SemenovTatyan LioznovaDirect tatiana LioznovaStarring Vyacheslav Tikhonov Joseph KopelyanLeoneid BronevaCaterina GradovaRostislav PlattNared by Joseph KopelianTemsky composerMikael TariverdievCountry of originSoviet UnionOriginal language (s) RussianNet. episodes12ProductionProducer (s)Efim Lebedinsky zinovich GenzerCinematographyPyotr KataevEditor (s) Ksenia BlinovaUnning time840 minutesProduction company (s) Gorkovskaya Film StudioReoriginal NetworkProgram OneOriginal release 8 July (1973-1973-1973-1973-1977 August 24, 1973 (1973-08- 24)External referencesWeses Seventeen Moments of Spring (Russian: 1973- semnadtsat' mgnoveniy vesny) - Soviet twelve-night television series 1973, directed by Tatiana Lioznova and based on the novel of the same name by The Name. The series depicts the exploits of Maxim Isaev, a Soviet spy acting in Nazi Germany under the name Max Otto von Stirlitz, as Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Stirlitz was planted in 1927, long before the Nazi takeover of pre-war Germany. He is then recruited to the NSDAP and rose through the ranks, becoming an important Nazi foreign intelligence officer. He recruits several agents from the dissidents of the German intelligentsia and persecuted clergy, and operates through an agency network. Stirlitz discovers, and then schemes to thwart, secret negotiations between Carl Wolfe and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland aimed at forming a separate world between Germany and Allies. Meanwhile, the Gestapo under the leadership of Heinrich Mueller is looking for an unidentified Soviet resident spy and his ring. To avoid the capture of Stirlitz, cunningly maneuvers among the powerful Nazis and pulls the strings of his network. The series is considered the most successful Soviet spy thriller in history and one of the most popular television series in Soviet history. Two songs from the series, Moments and Song of the Distant Motherland, became very popular. Plot February 12, 1945, Germany. Max Otto von Stirlitz, a respected SS-Standardenfuhrer in the Ausland-SD, is actually a Soviet spy Maxim Isayev, who infiltrated the German institution many years ago. Although Adolf Hitler is determined to continue world War II, Walter Schellenberg convinces Heinrich Himmler to negotiate secretly with the Americans, hoping to reach a separate peace agreement that would allow the Germans to concentrate all their forces on the Eastern Front. Meanwhile, Ernst Kaltenbrunner is suspicious of Stirlitz and orders Heinrich Mueller to launch a secret investigation against him. Moscow ordered Stirlitz to find out whether the Americans and Germans have a backdoor channel, and if so, to derail any possible agreement. His mission is complicated when the house of his assistants, radio operators Erwin and Catherine Kinn, bombed. Erwin was killed and his pregnant wife was taken to the hospital, threatening to compromise Stirlitz. He recruits two new aides - Professor Pleishner, a former member of the German Resistance, and Pastor Schlag, a cleric who disapproves of the regime. All the while Stirlitz must enter into a battle of minds with Mueller, who seeks to expose him as an enemy agent. It must also maneuver between the warring factions within the Directorate General of Security, as various high-ranking officials are fighting for power. Realizing that Himmler and Schellenberg sent Carl Wolff to negotiate with Allen Dulles in neutral Switzerland, Stirlitz, playing on the rivalry between The Nazi captivity, succeeds in leaking details of negotiations conducted under the code name Operation Crossword, both Hitler and Stalin. The councils that now have evidence are demanding that these contacts be terminated, and President Roosevelt must oblige them. Himmler narrowly convinces Hitler that this was just an attempt to sow distrust among the Allies. On March 24, 1945, Stirlitz, who managed to clear up all suspicions against him, returned to his duties. The Red Army is steadily approaching Berlin. Starring Vyacheslav Tikhonov - Max Otto von Stirlitz Evgeny Evstigneev - Professor Pleishner Lev Durov - Klaus Svetlana Svetlichskaya - Gabi Nabel Nikolai Volkov - Erwin Kinn Ekaterina Gradova - Ekaterina Kinn Oleg Tabakov - Walter Schellenberg Leonid Broneva Emilia Milton as Ms. Saurich Otto Mellis as Helmut Calder Olga Soshnikova as Barbara Krein Nikolai Prokopovich as Heinrich Himmler Evgeny Kuznetsov as Friedrich-Wilhelm Kruger Edward Izotov as Rudolf Smundt Vladimir Udalov as Wilhelm Burgdorf Rostislav Platt as Pastor Fritz Schlag Diez - Adolf Hitler Vasily Lanova - Karl Wolf Valentin Gaft - Gavernitz Vladimir Koenigson - Krause Eleanor Shashkova - Wife of Isaev Alexey Safonov - Wilhelm Burmeyer - Hermann Goering Jan Janakiev - Evgeny Dollmann Vyacheslav Shalevich - Allen Dulles Alexey Eibozhenko - Vladimir Guzman Speer Production Von in the late 1960s, After Yuri Andropov became chairman of the Soviet Union's State Security Committee, he launched a campaign to improve the image of the service, which was primarily related to his role in the political repression carried out by the government. Andropov encouraged a series of novels, songs, films and other works glorifying KGB agents, focusing on those who serve abroad - mainly in the hope of attracting young and educated recruits to the organization. The television production of Seventeen Moments of Spring was part of this trend. In 1965, the author of books on espionage, the author of books on espionage, wrote the novel No Password Required, in which he first introduced the character Vsevolod Vladimirov - a young agent Chek, who penetrates into the headquarters of Admiral Alexander Kolchak under the pseudonym Maxim Isayev. No password Required has become successful with readers. It was adapted for the screen in 1967, and the film of the same name attracted more than 20 million viewers. In the same year, Semenov published the sequel Major Whirlwind. In 1968, he was invited to a meeting with Andropov, who told him that he did not read the password and enjoyed it. The third novel with Isaev's Seventeen Moments of Spring was inspired by the chairman's proposal; Semenov recorded it in less than two weeks. In the new book, Isaev was - for the first time - the main character working inside German intelligence under the guise of an SS Stirlitz officer. Already in 1969, even before publication, it was decided to turn it into a television series. Stirlitz's character reflected Andropov's own conception of the ideal Soviet spy: he was a calculating, modest, devoted to his country and above all an intellectual who fulfilled his mission by outsmarting his enemies. He was first of all, though not exclusively and in free form, the Gestapo officer turned Soviet agent, Willie Lehmann. The U.S.-German negotiations thwarted by Stirlitz were modelled on the real agreement reached by Allen Dulles and Carl Wolf in 1945, which led to the surrender of the Wehrmacht in northern Italy on May 2, 1945. The show's creators may have known about the 1958 film Two-Headed Spy, in which a high-ranking German general is indeed a British spy, and he has a performer who encodes secret messages into piano accompaniment. The film also features Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Heinrich Mueller, whose interactions with the spy are reflected in Seventeen Moments of Spring, in a rather surprising resemblance. Tatiana Lioznova, director of development of the Gorky film studio, encountered Seventeen Moments of Spring after reading an excerpt from it in the magazine Banner; she decided that she would adapt it for the screen. By that time, Semenov had already successfully agreed with Lenfilm to produce the series. Lioznova put a lot of pressure on him and eventually convinced the author to terminate the contract with the Leningrad company. Semenov wrote a letter to the chairman of the State Committee on television and radio Sergey Lapin and asked to allow Gorky's studio to take over the project. Lioznova made several changes to Semenov's material: she was referring to the character of Ms. Saurich, an elderly German with whom Stirlitz had to talk from time to time to make him more accommodating; the author hesitantly dragged her and wrote several such scenes. Actress Faina Ranevskaya, to whom the director offered the role, refused to perform it, saying that it was terrible nonsense. Eventually, Lioznova decided to improvise during filming