Seventeen Moments of Spring. Cineman with history. Semenov Yu.S.

50 years ago, the multi -part film “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, shot according to the novel of the same name, Julian Semenov, was released on the television screens of the country. Our publication is devoted to the history of the famous book and its legendary film adaptation.

For the first time, the filmmaker “Seventeen Moments of Spring” is published - an original literary scenario of the feature film. He was written by Julian Semenov before the novel himself and therefore has significant differences from him. The answer to the question of how and why it happened, and other interesting details of the creation of the novel, the film, and in general the literary hero-the intelligence officer Isaev-Shtirlitz are contained in the documentary essay “Kino-Roman with history” and other sections of this book.

For the first time, the story “Odyssey of the 44th year” and other unknown works from the writer’s archive-the novel “Mr. Bolshevik”, “Exodus”, “49 hours 25 minutes”, stories and essays.