The Shield and the Sword (1968)
The Shield and the Sword (1968)
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Plot.
The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile intent from Germany and so arranges for its spies to infiltrate ranks of the German military and the SS.
Alexander Belov is a Russian spy, who travels from Soviet-held Latvia to Nazi Germany under an alias of Johann Weiss. His mastery of the German language, steel nerves and an ability to manipulate others help him to use his connections in the SS to ascend the ladder of the German intelligence.
He uses his position to identify sympathetic Germans, who help him to procure vital intelligence, and to help local resistance movements in their collective fight against Nazism.
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Cast & Crew.

Stanislav Lyubshin
Alexandr Belov/Johann Weiss

Oleg Yankovskiy
Heinrich Schwarzkopf

Juozas Budraitis
Dietrich - kapitän/major der Abwehr

Aleksey Glazyrin
Axel Steinglitz

Alla Demidova
Angelika Bucher

Algimantas Masiulis
Willy Schwarzkopf

Anatoliy Verbitskiy
Gerd - leiter der Abwehrschule

Vadim Kozhevnikov
Creator / Screenplay / Novel / Novel / Screenplay

Mikhail Matusovsky
Lyricist

Venyamin Basner
Original Music Composer

Lyudmila Tsvetkova
Kursantka

Lyudmila Badorina
Lead Editor

Mariya Sergeyeva
Lead Editor

Aleksei Parkhomenko
Production Design

Valentin Perelyotov
Costume Design

Vitaliy Lvov
Key Makeup Artist

Galina Prigozhina
Key Makeup Artist

Stanislav Marin
Production Manager

Viktor Tsirul
Production Manager

V. Churinov
Assistant Director

Dzhanet Tambiyeva
Co-Director

Natalia Terpsikhorova
Assistant Director

Natalya Parkhomenko
Assistant Production Design

Ekaterina Vladimirova
Assistant Production Design

Grigori Korenblyum
Sound Director

Ulf Bergstrem
Visual Effects Camera

Boris Pluzhnikov
Visual Effects Camera

Nikolay Zvonaryov
VFX Artist

Viktor Chemendryakov
Assistant Camera

Pyotr Kuznetsov
Camera Operator

Pavel Lebeshev
Camera Operator

Timofei Lebeshev
Director of Photography

V. Manokhin
Assistant Camera

Mark Bernes
Playback Singer

Pavel Kravetskiy
Playback Singer

Nina Skuybina
Script Editor

Boris Solovov
Military Consultant

D. Tarasov
Military Consultant

Emin Khachaturyan
Conductor

Martyn Nersesyan
Conductor

Helga Göring
frau Ditmar

Lyudmila Chursina
fräulein-gefreiter

Nikolay Zasukhin
Oscar Papke

Mikhail Pogorzhelsky
von Salz

Sofya Fadeyeva
frau Bucher

Ernst-Georg Schwill
Gustav

Otmar Richter
Kurt

Yelena Dobronravova
die frau ist taubstumm

Nikolay Grabbe
der mann ist taubstumm

Vladimir Basov
Creator / Director / Screenplay / Bruno

Sergei Borisov
Vater des fräulein-gefreiten

Alfreds Videnieks
ermittler in Riga

Taisiya Dodina
Eva

Eduard Izotov
agent

Vitaliy Konyaev
Paul

Ansis Kreicbergs
ermittler in Riga

Yuri Medvedev
beamter beim Arbeitsamt

Georgiy Martynyuk
Aleksey Zubov/Alois Hagen

Valentina Titova
Nina - kadettin «Spitsa»

Natalya Velichko
Elsa

Vatslav Dvorzhetsky
Landsdorf ist Abwehrmitarbeiter

Christine Laszar
Brigitte

Vsevolod Safonov
«Gvozd'» - kadett der Abwehrschule

Valentin Smirnitskiy
«Faza» - kadett der Abwehrschule

Vladimir Marenkov
«Tuz» - kadett der Abwehrschule

Igor Yasulovich
«Goga» - kadett der Abwehrschule

Sergey Papov
gefangener Sowjetischer offizier

Wojciech Duryasz
Jerzy Czyzewski - pole

Szczepan Baczyński
Polonsky - kellner in einem casino

Kurt Müller-Reitzner
Karl Kunert - deutscher

Jürgen Frohriep
Jürgen Hönig - deutscher

Szilárd Bánki
Janos Molnar - ungar

Zarko Prebil
Mladen Milenkovic - serbe

Georgiy Petrovskiy
Herbert

Lev Polyakov
Gerlach - stellvertretender leiter der Abwehrschule

Nikolai Prokopovich
Schultz - garagendirektor

Nadezhda Samsonova
frau Wilma

Mikhail Selyutin
agent

Mili Taut-Korso
dienstmädchen im haus Schwarzkopf

Yuri Chekulayev
hundetrainer

Zhanna Aleksandrova
mädchen - gefangener

Viktor Zadubrovsky
mann am bahnhof

Joachim Tomaschewsky
kellner

Heinz Braun
deutscher gefreiter im speisesaal

Anna Frolovtseva
deutsches mädchen

Vladimír Brabec
Jaromir Drobny - slowakisch

Yuriy Yakovlev
Franta Jurasek - tschechisch

Konstantin Tyrtov
«Sinitsa» - kadett der Abwehrschule

Igor Bezyaev
«Krolik» - köder in einem kriegsgefangenenlager

Nikolay Penkov
Hacke - ausbilder an der Abwehrschule

Nina Agapova
Zelenko-Aufbaum - kapitan der mädchenschule der Abwehr

Dmitriy Masanov
Sorokin - oberst der mädchenschule der Abwehr

Vasili Ordynsky
«Politruk»

Olga Zhizneva
Freifrau

Boris Lifanov
von Rüge

Jerzy Binczycki
deutscher soldaten-fahrer

Inga Budkevich
Inga Rotmirova - «Nyurka»

Klaus Gehrke
stellvertretender Gefängniskommandant

German Kachin
«Khryashch» - kadett der Abwehrschule

Radner Muratov
«Shaman» - kadett der Abwehrschule

Pyotr Repnin
restaurantinhaber

Jerzy Fedorowicz
Spezialist für die auswahl von konzentrationslagern

Edgar Khodzhikyan
«Charlie Chaplin» - entertainer im casino

Valeriy Prokhorov
offizier aus Heinrichs gefolge

Uldis Dumpis
fliegerass der Luftwaffe

Yevgeniy Markov
Herr am empfang

Nina Krachkovskaya
kadettmädchen

Larisa Blinova
kadettmädchen

Galina Komarova
«Shtyr'» - kadettmädchen

Miervaldis Ozolins
«Englischer» - entertainer im casino

Viktor Murganov
offizier aus Heinrichs gefolge

Vilnis Bekeris
offizier aus Heinrichs gefolge

Konstantin Severnyy
restaurantbesucher

Georgi Rybakov
Doktor

Aino Pihlamagi
Ein vorbeigehendes mädchen

Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy
«Amerikanisch» - entertainer im casino

Luidmila Tsvetkova
kadettmädchen

Leonid Yukhin
häftling im konzentrationslager

Viktor Shulgin
Gestapomann im konzentrationslager

Anatoliy Kubatskiy
Franz

Horst Preusker
Stutthof - professor

Vladimir Balashov
Walter Sonnenberg

Vyacheslav Dugin
Reichsführer

Vladimir Osenev
Führer

Ralph Boettner
mann der Gestapo

Vladimir Gorelov
Göbbels

Vyacheslav Gostinsky
kommandant eines Kinderkonzentrationslagers

Jochen Diestelmann
mann der Gestapo

Yevgeni Zhukov
arztassistentin

Mikhail Sidorkin
Göring

Sergey Yakovlev
deutscher doktor

Lev Lobov
kellner mann

Aleksey Vanin
sanitäter

Aleksandr Yuryev
kellner mann

Viktor Volkov
kriegsgefangener der trümmer beseitigt

Pyotr Beryozov
RSHA-offizier

Cheslav Sushkevich
chauffeur in der abteilung Sonnenberg

A. Vladimirov
deutscher offizier

Sergei Plotnikov
Baryschew - sowjetischer general

Maria Pastukhova
Sowjetischer militärischer arzt

Gavriil Egiazarov
Sowjetischer luftlandekommandeur

Viktor Rozhdestvenskiy
assistent von Zubov / von Zubov's assistant

Valentina Ananina
krankenschwester in einem sowjetkrankenhaus

Aleksandr Fridental
arzt in einem sowjetkrankenhaus

Anatoli Chemodurov
kapitän - leiter von SMERSH

Georgiy Rumyantsev
deutscher offizier

Petras Steponavicius

Willi Schlösser

Andrzej Szajewski

Włodzimierz Saar

Ian Marr

Jerzy Nowak

Helfried Winzer

Erhard Bittner

Pauls Melducis

Iosif Libgott

Jerzy Sztwiertnia

Nikolay Shishov

F. Menza

Manfred Gericke

Arnis Tobis

Fritz Bogdon

N. Semyonov
Media.





Details.
Release DateAugust 19, 1968
Original NameЩит и меч
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes4
Filming LocationsRiga, Latvia
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
based on novel or book
world war ii
secret agent
third reich
recruitment
nazism
internment camp
soviet spy
intelligence assessment
Scripted
Wiki.
The Shield and the Sword (Russian: Щит и меч, romanized: Shchit i metch) is a 1968 Soviet spy television series in four parts directed by Vladimir Basov and produced by Mosfilm. Set during World War II, it is based on a novel by Vadim Kozhevnikov, who was Secretary of the Soviet Writers' Union.
The series was highly influential in the Soviet Union, inspiring many, including Vladimir Putin, to join the KGB.
The song What Does Motherland Begin With (С чего начинается Родина), sung by Mark Bernes, that was main musical theme of each film in the series, became well known in the USSR.
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