"17 moments of spring": the interesting facts about a masterpiece, to which 50 years

Exactly 50 years ago, on August 11, 1973, to screens of Soviet Union came the serial film "Seventeen Moments of Spring". And instantly became sensation. All country clung to TV screens and with a sinking heart watched life of the Soviet scout illegal immigrant Isaev Maxime Maksimovich, SD introduced in central office under a name of the standartenfuehrer Otto Maxime Stierlitz's background. During display of all 12 evenings in the country almost there was no street crime, electricity consumption sharply increased and the water consumption decreased — people sat at TVs. By different estimates, in days of a premiere the movie watched...