The film "TASS is authorized to state ..": actors and roles

In 1979, the famous Soviet writer Yulian Semenov - author of the novel "Seventeen Moments of Spring" - wrote a political detective "TASS is authorized to declare ...". His screen version was a success, albeit not as loud as the movie series about the brave scout Shtirlitsa. In the project, many stars of Soviet cinema were occupied, thanks to which a multi-part film still arouses interest among viewers.

About the creators of the series

The multi-part film "TASS is authorized to declare ..." (actors and roles we list below) was directed by Vladimir Fokin. This, perhaps, is his most brilliant work in the cinema, as in the following years he was mainly involved in the creation of television program cycles and was engaged in teaching at VGIK.

The picture "TASS is authorized to declare ..." was created by him in close cooperation with Julian Semenov, who acted as the author of the script. Probably, this circumstance, and also the fact that the writer partly wrote this detective novel, so to speak, from nature, ensured success to the series.

Content

According to the plot of the film "TASS is authorized to state ..." (the actors who appeared in the film at the time of its premiere were already well acquainted with the audience), the CIA is preparing a coup in the fictional African state of Nagony. They are confronted by KGB officers, led by General Konstantinov. In particular, Colonel Slavin is sent to Africa as a journalist. As a result of the investigation, he finds out that, perhaps, the Soviet trade representative in Luisburg Zotov and his former wife Olga Winter and her lover Dubov are involved in the case.

Slavin gets acquainted with American business John Glabbom. It turns out that this is a CIA agent who is ordered to bring to power General Agamo.

Glabb guesses who the Soviet journalist really is, and decides to discredit him as a double agent. In Moscow, an investigator is connected to the writer Stepanov, who is studying the crimes of the Nazis. Soon, Olga Winter perishes. Examination shows that the young woman was poisoned. Suspicion falls on Dubova. In Luisburg, the local police arrange a search from Zotov. He exerts resistance and is wounded.

Slavin goes all-in and tells Glabb that he knows about his unsightly deeds in the past and that he is an agent of the CIA. In addition, the article by Stepanov about what is happening in Nagoya, confuses all the plans of the American.

Glabb arranges the trap for Slavin, and he is in prison. In Moscow, the KGB leadership decides to arrest Dubov, but he at the last minute takes poison.

The correspondent of the American newspaper Post, Paul Dick, speaks in defense of Slavin. Meanwhile, in Moscow instead of Dubov to meet with an unknown resident of the CIA, a KGB officer, dressed as a lieutenant, comes to him. The agent is detained, due to which the American special services are forced to abandon the plan for organizing an armed coup in Nagoya.

"TASS is authorized to declare ...": actors and roles of the first plan

Yuri Solomin first played a fearless scout in the series "Adjutant of His Excellency." The image of a handsome officer with aristocratic manners immediately made the actor one of the sex symbols of Soviet cinema. Like other actors of the film "TASS is authorized to state ...", he coped well with his task in this film. In his performance, Colonel Vitaly Slavin is a Christmatic image of a Soviet intelligence officer, ready to perform feats for the sake of a just cause. He sincerely believes that the party leadership knows exactly what life should be in any particular country, regardless of the desire of its inhabitants. However, his counterparts from the CIA act exactly the same.

General Konstantinov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov became a recognized star of Russian cinema at a very young age. At the time of filming in the film "TASS is authorized to declare ..." he had roles in such film masterpieces as "Young Guard", "War and Peace", "Optimistic Tragedy" and others. However, the actor was best known for the role of Stirlitz in Cult series "Seventeen Moments of Spring" based on the novel by Julian Semenov. That is why no one was surprised by Tikhonov's invitation to the picture "TASS is authorized to declare ...". The actors in the shoots joked that it was a great honor for them to work under the guidance of the most famous scout of the country, who was able to beat Müller himself.

Vyacheslav Vasilyevich played the role of General Konstantinov, who is devoted to his cause and has behind him a vast experience of fighting on the fronts of the Cold War

John Glabb

This is the most unexpected role of the favorite of the entire former Soviet Union - Vakhtang Kikabidze. Before working in the film "TASS is authorized to state ..." he was known as an excellent comedian. Particularly successful was the image of the pilot Mimino from the painting of the same name by George Danelia.

When, after the premiere, critics claimed that in the TV series "TASS is authorized to declare ..." the actors who played the role of CIA agents perfectly coped with their tasks, they primarily meant Kikabidze. In his performance, the image of John Glabb turned out to be very bright and charismatic. Looking at his hero, the spectator unconditionally believes that this is a scoundrel, ready for anything.

Paul Dick

Alexei Vasilievich Petrenko played the role of an American journalist. Before creating the image of Paul Dick on the screen, he already had more than a dozen works in the cinema. Particularly popular with the artist was the participation in the film "Agony", where he played Grigory Rasputin. A completely different image he had to create in the TV series "TASS is authorized to declare ...".

Actors of the film, engaged in "African" scenes, traveled to Abkhazia and Cuba. Alexander Petrenko had to go on such business trips . Apparently, there he spied some of the gringo manners - "white" Cubans, who demonstrated on the screen, although he embodied the image of an American journalist.

Sergey Dubov

This role of Boris Klyuyev is not so famous as the image of the Earl of Rochefort from The Three Musketeers. However, she is one of the most interesting in the film "TASS is authorized to declare ...", since it is Sergey Dubov who is the notorious agent Trianon, who is trying to calculate and neutralize the KGB.

Female images

In the film "TASS is authorized to declare ..." male actors are mostly stars, but female images in the picture were embodied by no less famous actresses. For example, Olga Winter was played by Irina Alferova. In her filmography, films like "Walking by the Flours", "Three Musketeers" and others, Alferov in the image of Olga Wiener, are a clever and worthy opponent for the KGB officers, who calculates their moves, but still admits a fatal mistake.

The second important female role of Glabb's mistress - Pilar - was performed by Eleanor Zubkov. At one time, the actress worked as a model in the House of Fashion Vyacheslav Zaitsev. She looked very organically in the role of a girl with connections from an impoverished family of Spanish grandees, forced to sell herself to a successful American businessman, who, incidentally, has a legitimate wife.

By the way, since it's about the wife of Glabb, it should be said about the performer of this role, Olga Volkova. She had to portray the daughter of a Nazi criminal who inherited millions from her parents. The husband holds her in a psychiatric clinic and pumps drugs in the hope of getting rid of her unloved wife and taking her money.

Now you know who took the picture "TASS is authorized to declare ...". Actors, whose photos are familiar to almost all residents of post-Soviet countries, played in this film in such a way that even ideological background does not interfere with enjoying a good movie.