The Shield and the Sword
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Seventeen Moments of Spring
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About 1973 Soviet twelve-part television miniseries
Genres drama, espionage, detective, mystery, war
Created by Tatyana Lioznova
Written by Yulian Semyonov
Starring Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Oleg Tabakov, Leonid Kuravlyov, Vasily Lanovoy, Leonid Bronevoy, Valentin Gaft, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Music Mikael Tariverdiev
Length 12 episodes, 840 min each
Network Soviet Central Television, Programme One
Country Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Links TMDB · IMDb · Letterboxd · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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