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Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) ("Семнадцать мгновений весны" in Russian), also Seventeen Instants of Spring is a Soviet TV film series, directed by Tatiana Lioznova and based on the book series of the same title by the novelist Yulian Semyonov.

The series is about the life of the fictional Soviet spy Isaev operating in the Nazi Germany under the name Stirlitz, played by the Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Other leading roles were played by Leonid Bronevoy, Oleg Tabakov, Rostislav Plyatt, and Vasily Lanovoy.

The series were immensely popular in Soviet Union and many jokes and popular phrases originated from them.

The music for the movie was written by Georgian-born composer Mikael Tariverdiev.

Plans were discussed to build a monument to Stirlitz in the city of Gorokhovets, his birth place in the series.

A Polish television series with a very similar theme, More Than Life at Stake (Polish: Stawka większa niż życie) (with Captain Kloss being the analogous character to Stirlitz) was made in 1967-1968.

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