The film critic called the film, which is the "cultural code of Russia"

The film "Seventeen moments of Spring" by Tatyana Lioznova still remains a cult, while young people may not know the main character — Stirlitz. This opinion was expressed to the NSN portal by film critic Alexander Shpagin.

"Any intellectual person today needs to know this picture, because it is the cultural code of Russia, like Gaidai's films, in which young people also do not understand everything, like "Irony of Fate" and so on. The Soviet images that were in those years are now gone, but the trail of cultishness remains," he believes.

According to Shpagin, children who do not know anything about the 1970s are not interested in this, they do not understand what such paintings are all about.

"However, this film will remain a classic until a large number of cult films grow, and they do not appear yet. Over the past 30 years, maybe only two films have been released that have reached such a level of cult status as "Seventeen Moments of Spring" in those years. These are "Brother 2" and "Liquidation," Shpagin believes.

The film critic attributed the series about Stirlitz to existential cinema and explained how he "hooked" Soviet viewers, and what the creators overdid.

"The film then incredibly got into the internal mood of society, the early 1970s was a difficult time, all the screws were tightened and stagnation began. All people felt like Stirlitz — we say one thing, we mean another, we do the third. Lioznova shot this picture in the genre of existential drama, based on the detective story she made a "state film", showing the loneliness of Stirlitz and how he is trying to cope with it," the expert said.

"The internal restructuring of society began with the film "Seventeen Moments of Spring", where there was an absolute change in the usual narratives and approaches to the topic of war. It was an incredible innovation by Lioznova, who showed the bosses of Stirlitz to be completely ordinary people, and not angry and cold aggressive wolves," Shpagin is also sure.

At the same time, the film critic recalled that, having shown once, "Seventeen moments of Spring" was not shown for more than 10 years, because children started playing "fascists".

As EADaily reported, in December last year, a monument to the creators of the Soviet television series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973), considered the best feature film about domestic intelligence, was opened at the Gorky film studio, which shot this picture. The opening of the monument by Andrei Kovalchuk was timed to coincide with the 105th anniversary of the Foreign Intelligence Service celebrated on Saturday. The monument is installed at the entrance to the building of the film studio, in the square.