17 moments of audience happiness – Moskovskaya Pravda

The modest date of the great Russian actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov is an excellent occasion today to recall his roles, human qualities and popular love.

S.E. Naryshkin: “The main thing for a scout is an endless sense of the Motherland, a sense of loyalty to duty and to one’s country.”

On February 12 at 19:45 on the Public Television of Russia – the premiere of the program “Playing hopscotch. Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Especially for this issue, Sergey Evgenyevich Naryshkin, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Russian Historical Society, kindly agreed to give an exclusive interview about intelligence officers on the screen and in reality..

Half a century ago, the television series “Seventeen Moments of Spring” was released. And 95 years ago, the actor who played the main role in this film was born – Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov, People’s Artist of the USSR. Anna Tikhonova, the daughter of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, and Olga Semenova, the daughter of Julian Semenov, remember Tikhonov and the famous film in the OTR studio.

The host of the program is Leonid Mlechin.

Many popular films and series have been shot about intelligence. But none has reached such a level of authenticity as the popularly loved “17 Moments of Spring”. A whole constellation of talents came together in the work on the film: actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov, director Tatyana Lioznova and screenwriter Yulian Semyonov.

Sergei Evgenievich Naryshkin, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation:

— The film is brilliant and the image created by Vyacheslav Tikhonov is brilliant. You know, intelligence is a very specific field of activity. And the work of a reconnaissance operative does not make patterns. The great merit of the creative team of the film “Seventeen Moments of Spring” is that they very subtly showed the main thing that determines the success of an employee of foreign domestic intelligence, and in relation to the film, what determined the success of Maxim Maksimovich Isaev is an endless feeling of the Motherland, a sense of loyalty to duty, their country, of course, multiplied by the highest professionalism!

The writer Yulian Semyonov wrote his character so convincingly that Stirlitz was perceived by many as a real figure. And Vyacheslav Vasilievich played him amazingly convincingly.

Olga Semenova – daughter of Julian Semenov, writer, screenwriter and prose writer, actress, public figure, publicist, representative of the Russian Children’s Fund in the UN, member of the Writers’ Union of Russia, member of the Moscow Union of Journalists:

— Vyacheslav Vasilievich really liked dad as an actor. He often watched films with his participation and always said: “My God, how wonderful Slavochka thinks in the frame! This is an amazing talent – to think so in the frame! He really liked the smart, intelligent and kind face of Tikhonov, and this magnificent look and thought. Dad always said that a scout is not someone who runs around rooftops and shoots a pistol. A real intelligence officer must constantly think. Such a profession.

Anna Tikhonova, daughter of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, actress, film producer, director of the creative and production studio “Kino Actor”:

– About popularity. I remember that he and I were at the May Day demonstration, we walked in a column, and then, tired, we decided to turn into an alley. But people noticed that Stirlitz was walking with them in the column! Someone shouted: “Look, Stirlitz! He went there!” And the whole column changed its course and went to this alley, where my dad and I decided to turn.

In our memory – in the memory of grateful viewers, Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov remains, first of all, the main character of the series “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, which was released on television half a century ago.

Sergei Evgenievich Naryshkin suggested to the film crew of the OTR that they “shoot” a monument dedicated to intelligence officers, opened in June last year on the territory of the headquarters of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation in Yasenevo. It is symbolic that the image of the Soviet illegal intelligence agent Maxim Isaev-Stirlitz, played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov in the television series Seventeen Moments of Spring based on the novel of the same name by Yulian Semenov, is depicted in bronze.

It seems that the next Sunday evening, full of experiences, good memories and amazing emotions, is guaranteed to the audience of OTP!