Production Designer
Boris DULENKOV
Music by
Mikael TARIVERDIYEV
Lyrics by
Robert ROZHDESTVENSKY
English Subtitles by
Galina BARDINA
End of Part 5Central Studio
of Children and Youth Films
named after M. Gorky
By commission of State Committee
of the USSR Council of Ministers
on Television and Radio Broadcasting
SEVENTEEN
MOMENTS OF SPRING
PART 6
Starring
Stirlitz - Vyacheslav TIKHONOV
Pastor Schlagg - Rostislav PLYATT
Kathe - Yekaterina GRADOVA
Gabi Nabel - Svetlana SVETLICHNAYA
Frau Zaurich - Emiliya MILTON
Schellenberg - Oleg TABAKOV
Mueller - Leonid BRONEVOY
Rolf - Alexei SAFONOV
Insurance agent -
Victor SHCHEGLOV
Narrated by
Yefim KOPELYAN
Good evening, pastor.
Sorry, I'm so late.
Have you been sleeping?
Good evening. I've been sleeping,
but never mind.
- Sorry again.
- I've forgiven you. Come in.
I'll just put on the light there.
This way.
Has anything happened?
It has.
This way.
- Thank you. Where can I sit?
- Here.
Pastor, who has been living with you
for the past few days?
What's this? An interrogation?
No.
- So it means, I may not answer?
- You must answer.
What if I refuse?
- You won't.
- Why?
When you answer, I'll explain to you why.
One man has been living with me.
- Who is he?
- I don't know.
- Did he tell you his name?
- No.
Did you ask him?
No, I didn't.
He begged for shelter.
He was in poor shape.
I couldn't turn him out.
That's good that you are
lying to me so confidently.
He told you he was a Marxist. You
argued with him as with a communist.
He's not a communist,
Pastor, and has never been one.
He's my agent,
and he's a Gestapo provocateur.
I see...
I talked with him as with a human.
I don't care whether he's
a communist or your agent.
He begged to rescue him,
so I couldn't refuse him.
You couldn't refuse him.
And you don't care whether he's
a communist or a Gestapo agent.
And what if concrete people
go to the gallows,
because you care for some abstraction.
Is that important to you?
Definitely.
That's important to me.
And to be still more concrete,
the first ones to go to the gallows
will be your sister and her kids -
is that important to you?
It's ultimate evil.
But to say that you don't care
who's in front of you -
a communist or a Gestapo agent -
is by far a bigger evil.
And this kind of evil is dogmatic,
therefore exceptionally dreadful.
Sit down and listen to me.
Your conversation with my
agent was taped.
No, it's his work, not mine.
I don't know what's happened to him.
He sent me a strange letter.
And besides, they won't believe him
without the tape, which I destroyed.
As for your sister,
she'll be arrested as soon as
you cross the border of Switzerland.
But I don't intend
to cross the border of Switzerland.
You shall cross it.
And I'll see to it that
your sister is out of danger.
You're like a were-wolf.
It's hard to trust you.
You're so many-faced.
You have no choice,
so trust me.
You will cross the border
of Switzerland
to save
your relatives, won't you?
I will.
I'll go there to save their lives.
Why don't you ask
what you are to do in Switzerland?
If I ask you to blow up a kirch,
you will refuse to go, right?
You're a smart man, and, no doubt,
you've calculated what's in my power,
and what's beyond me.
Right.
Are you sorry for Germany?
I'm sorry for the Germans.
Okay.
Do you think that the urgent peace
is a way out for the Germans?
It's a way out for Germany.
That's sophistry, Pastor.
It's a way out for the Germans,
for Germany, for mankind.
We don't fear death.
We've had our day.
And besides, we are just lonely
aging men.
And what about kids?
I'm listening to you.
What names can you give
of your old friends you know
from the anti-war movement?
The dictatorship needs pacifists?
No, the dictatorship
doesn't need any pacifists.
They're needed by those who can sensibly
evaluate the moment, realizing
that every day of war brings
new victims and