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SEVENTEEN MOMENTS OF SPRING 1973 | dir. Tatyana Lioznova

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Today in made-for-TV spy drama / Soviet film history: on July 8, 1973 the first installment of Seventeen Moments of Spring premiered in the USSR.

Here’s some Stierlitz art to mark the occasion!

Re-watching the essentials ✅

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Soviet movies recs

Here are some of my faves, I post them links to a site where you can watch them with subs or dubbed.

1. Beware of the car (Берегись автомобиля, 1966, comedy, subtitled).

Innokenty Smoktunovsky (yes, it was him mentioned in Robert Vaughn’s autobiography as the actor who played Hamlet in the Soviet adaptation that came out in 1966) plays the main character, a modest idealistic insurance agent who is appalled by the fact that there is so much corruption around him, so, he starts his revenge by stealing the bad people’s cars... Nobody suspects him, including the police inspector who plays Laertes alongide his Hamlet in an amateur production.

Smoktunovsky is my absolute favourite Soviet actor, he could play all kinds of parts. In this one he is amazing as Yuri Detochkin, an absolutely innocent character who reminds of Prince Myshkin from Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, another famour part of Smoktunovsky, sadly, it was a theatre role and there are no records available. Oleg Yefremov plays the inspector, Yefremov was one of the most influencial Soviet theatre directors and a famous actor. There is also Andrey Mironov, one of absolute Soviet sex-symbols.

A very good movie and a good place to start.

2. An Ordinary Miracle (Обыкновенное чудо, 1978, fantasy, subtitles)

The Wizard turned a bear into a man. He did that out of fancy and the man will turn back into a bear if he’s kissed by a princess. And, what a coincidence! There is one coming here today! But what if they fall in love? Really, really fall in love?

An extremely poetic story about a creator who has lost control over his creations. Dozens of great actors and wondertul characters. Probably my favourite Soviet movie.

3. The Twelve Chairs (Двенадцать стульев, 1971, comedy, subtitles)

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

My favourite adaptation of one of my favourite books. It’s set in the 1920s, full of satire, it’s a light-hearted, beloved by many miniseries. There is one more big adaptation of this book, it stars Andrey Mironov, already mentioned here, and Ippolit there is played by Anatoly Papanov who played his father-in-law in Beware of the Car. That one is more of a musical and is quite theatrical which is not bad at all, I just prefer this one. There was also a follow-up book called The Golden Calf that was adapted a couple of times as well. So, it’s quite a franchise!

4. Seventeen Moments of Spring (17 мгновений весны, 1973, espionage thriller, subtitles)

OIIIIIII AYEEEEEE My first love!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was the first show that I was obsessed with and one of my first special interests.

The series portrays the exploits of Maxim Isaev, a Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany under the name Max Otto von Stierlitz, depicted by Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Stierlitz is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies.

The series is considered the most successful Soviet espionage thriller ever made, and is one of the most popular television series in Russian history.

I absolutely recommend it to everyone.