When it comes to the first Soviet television series “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, it is difficult to resist superlatives in the epithets: talented script, excellent direction, brilliant acting. In a word - a great, cult, epoch-making film that opened a new page in the filmography dedicated to our opponents in the Second World War. He put an end to some legends... and created new ones. The book by the famous historian of the Third Reich K. Zalessky talks about what in the film corresponds to historical truth and what is nothing more than a myth created by the authors of the film.