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Witness History: The Soviet James Bond

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The Soviet James Bond

21/07/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Soviet James Bond

The most successful TV spy series in the USSR went on air in 1973.

The most successful TV spy series in the USSR went on air in 1973. In 2017, Dina Newman spoke to Eleonora Shashkova who played the agent's wife.

The most successful TV spy series ever to be broadcast in the USSR, went on air in 1973. The central character was a Soviet secret agent in Nazi Germany, Max Otto von Stierlitz. In 2017, Dina Newman spoke to actor Eleonora Shashkova who played Stierlitz's wife.

(Photo: the script-writer Julian Semenov (l) and actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov, who played Stierlitz (r), on set in Moscow in 1972. Credit: courtesy of Julian Semenov Foundation.)

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