Seventeen Moments of Spring

Seventeen Moments of Spring Russian , trans. Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny is a 1973 Soviet twelvepart television series, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the novel of the same title by Yulian Semyonov.

February 1945, Germany. Max Otto von Stierlitz, a respected SSStandartenfhrer in the AuslandSD, is in fact Soviet spy Maxim Isaev, who has infiltrated into the German establishment many years ago. Though Adolf Hitler is determined to continue the Second World War, Walter Schellenberg convinces Heinrich Himmler to conduct secret negotiations with the Americans, hoping to reach a separate peace deal which would allow the Germans to concentrate all their forces on the Eastern Front. In the meantime, Ernst Kaltenbrunner becomes suspicious of Stierlitz, and orders Heinrich Mller to launch a covert investigation on him.Stierlitz is ordered by Moscow to ascertain whether the Americans and the Germans have a backdoor channel and, if so, to foil any possible agreement. His mission is complicated when the house of his sole assistants, radio operators Erwin and Katherin Kinn, is bombed. Erwin is killed, and his pregnant wife is taken to a hospital, threatening to compromise Stierlitz. He recruits two new aidesProfessor Pleischner, a former member of the German Resistance, and Pastor Schlag, a clergyman who disapproves of the regime. All the while, Stierlitz has to engage in a battle of wits with Mller, who seeks to expose him as an enemy agent. He must also maneuver between the opposing factions inside the Main Security Office, as different highranking officials vie for power. ........

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