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During the last year of World War II, Isaev, a Soviet mole in the German SS intelligence department, discovers that several top Nazi officers are negotiating with some Allied generals. After his radio operator is killed in a bombing, Isaev seeks ways to pass the information on to Moscow, while at the same time playing a game of wits and nerves against his German ‘colleagues’ who start to suspect something.
This was one of the first TV mini series produced in Russia.
Stierlitz – the cover name used by the protagonist – has become one of the most popular characters in Russian jokes, most of them based on word play and quotations from the series.
At the time of shooting, director Tatyana Lioznova had no photo of Heinrich Mueller, the head of the Gestapo. As a result, the part is played by an actor, who looks absolutely nothing like the real-life character.
The chief consultant on the film was a deputy chairman of the KGB.
| Leonid Bronevoy | Heinrich Mueller |
| Mikhail Zharkovsky | Ernst Kaltenbrunner |
| Vyacheslav Tikhonov | Max Otto von Stierlitz |
| Rostislav Plyatt | Pastor Schlag |
| Oleg Tabakov | Walter Schellenberg |
| Evgeny Yevstigneev | Professor Werner Pleischner |
| Ekaterina Gradova | Kathie Kinn |
