Seventeen moments of spring

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Movie
German title Seventeen moments of spring
Original title Семнадцать мгновений весны
(Semnadzat mgnowenij wesny)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1973
length approx. 840 minutes
Rod
Director Tatiana Liosnova
script Julian Semyonov
music Mikael Tariwerdiev
camera Pyotr Kataev
occupation

Seventeen Moments of Spring ( Russian Семнадцать мгновений весны , scientific transliteration Semnadcat 'mgnovenij vesny ) is a twelve-part Soviet television series by director Tatiana Liosnowa from 1973 , based on the novel of the same name by Julian Semjonow .

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February 1945, Berlin. The armed forces of the Third Reich suffered catastrophic losses against the Allies in World War II ; defeat is only a matter of time. Max-Otto von Stierlitz , SS-Standartenführer in the service of the RSHA under the command of Walter Schellenberg, lives and works in this confusion . Stierlitz has been a member of the NSDAP since the 1920s , a reliable cadre, always correct and meticulous - but what most do not know: in reality, Stierlitz is the Soviet spy Maxim Isajew who does his work “in the lion's den”.

Stierlitz receives an order from Moscow. Someone from the German leadership is trying to drive a wedge between the Allies and negotiate a separate peace treaty. There are four under suspicion: Hermann Göring , Heinrich Himmler , Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann .

Stierlitz sets out to find the suspect. Meanwhile, the head of the Reich Security Main Office , Ernst Kaltenbrunner , suspects his person : all too often missions in which Stierlitz had a hand in the game fail. He instructs Heinrich Müller , the head of the Gestapo , to check Stierlitz. Stierlitz is currently in the process of recruiting comrades-in-arms who can come unsuspectingly to Bern , where peace talks between the Allied negotiator, Allen Welsh Dulles and General Karl Wolff are underway. Two of the people recruited are Professor Werner Pleischner, whose brother had been involved in the fight against the Nazi regime for a long time , and Pastor Schlag, who has contacts with the former Minister Krause. The two are sent to Switzerland . Pleischner is exposed by agents of the Gestapo and commits suicide; Schlag has more success and finds out details about the negotiations.

When Stierlitz was certain that the initiative for a separate peace came from Himmler, he got in touch with Martin Bormann in order to play the Fiihrer's bigwigs off against each other. However, he got problems with Müller himself. His fingerprints are discovered on the radio suitcase of his resident friend, the radio operator Kät, with whom Stierlitz was in contact. Meanwhile, Kät is in the custody of the SS . When her newborn child was subjected to torture, she was rescued by German soldier Helmut. To enable her to escape, he saves Kät's life.

Stierlitz smuggles Kät out of Germany across the Swiss border; negotiations between Himmler and the Western Allies are thwarted. Stierlitz, however, is sitting in the car heading for Berlin. There are still two months until the end of the war.

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Awards

State premium of the RSFSR 1976.

Technical specifications

The film was shot in black and white and contains many documentary footage from the war chronicles. Excerpts from the German film Die Brücke from 1959 were used as documentary recordings.

Colored version

In May 2009, a colored version was shown on the Russian channel "Rossija" , which was announced with a lot of advertising. However, the audience received it with very mixed reactions. On the one hand, the post-coloring was criticized, which had largely been carried out in Korea and India for reasons of cost. On the other hand, each episode was shortened from around 70 minutes to 51 minutes. Finally, it was also criticized that the image section was cropped in this version: when transferring to the 16: 9 format, parts of the original 4: 3 image were lost. Furthermore, the personnel files of the (fictitious) employees of the RSHA as well as the credits contained several typing errors. The signs in public spaces were also afflicted with serious defects. The actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov described the colored version as "a crime".

Remarks

General SK Mischin and Colonel Kolch are given in the credits as advisors to the film. In reality, these pseudonyms hide the Deputy Chairman of the KGB of the USSR , Army General Semyon Zwigun and KGB Colonel Pipija . Leonid Kuravlyov originally auditioned for the role of Hitler .

The makers of the film did not have a photo of the real Heinrich Müller . And so the character of the Gestapo boss, who was embodied by Leonid Bronewoi , is completely different from the original. First, Müller is much older in the film than Stierlitz (for example: “Stierlitz, I'm not only the highest in rank, I'm also older than you” and “How old will you be in 1965? Seventy? And I'll be eighty.”). On the other hand, Oleg Tabakow looked so much like Walter Schellenberg that Schellenberg's niece sent him a postcard with thanks after the multi-part broadcast was broadcast on GDR television. - As a thank you for the well-played role of General Wolff, the actor Wassili Lanowoi received a box of cognac from the real Karl Wolff .

The role of Gestapo chief Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller contributed significantly to the popularity of the theater and film actor Leonid Bronewoi in the Soviet Union.

The scenes in the pub “Zum Groben Gottlieb” were filmed in the Berlin restaurant “ Zur lastinsen” .

The series contains some historical and linguistic errors.

  • Stierlitz meets with his agents in the Natural History Museum (episode 5) - all Berlin museums have been closed since the start of the war in 1939.
  • In the Natural History Museum, Stierlitz meets a class with schoolchildren (episode 5) - the Berlin schoolchildren had already been sent to other places less endangered by the bombing ( Kinderlandverschickung ); In February 1945 there were no longer any regular school lessons in Berlin.
  • The fictional Blumenstrasse in Bern / Switzerland is written on the street sign "Blümenstrasse".

Because toddlers grow very quickly, Kathrin Kinn and Helmut Kolder used six different babies for their babies. The scene in which Kathrin Kinn is tortured by laying her baby naked in the cold was shot in the studio, where it was actually very hot.

The composer Mikael Tariwerdijew and the poet Robert Roschdestwenski wrote 12 songs for the multi-part: one per episode. Ultimately, only two were used: the heroic "Mgnovenija" (moments) and the lyrical "Ja proschu ..." (I ask ...). The chairman of the KGB , Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov , whose approval was mandatory for the film, could only watch it at night - otherwise he had no time. Only one change was made on the advice of Andropow - Stierlitz 'memory of the German labor movement and Ernst Thalmann .

First, Muslim Magomaev was hired to sing the movie songs. However, he couldn't hit the right tone of the film. Ultimately, Iossif Kobson sang the songs - but with the instruction that you shouldn't recognize your voice.

In the dubbed GDR version, Stierlitz was spoken by GDR actor Otto Mellies , who also has a role in the film - that of soldier Helmut. Helmut was dubbed by another actor.

There was the Soviet film In a Secret Mission (1950, director: Michail Romm ), which also deals with the discovery of separate peace negotiations between Germany and the Allies. In this film, however, the protagonist is a woman, Mascha Gluchowa alias Martha Schierke, who dies in the end.

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  1. ↑ Interview with Tichonov's daughter in the "Literaturnaja Gazeta" (in Russian) ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lgz.ru