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Wikipedia article
'TASS Is Authorized to Declare...' (, translit. 'TASS upolnomochen zayavit...') is a 1984 Soviet spy miniseries directed by Vladimir Fokin. The series is set in Cold War era and portrays the struggle of Soviet and American intelligence agencies. It is based on a novel by the same name by Yulian Semyonov (the author of cult spy series 'Seventeen Moments of Spring'). "17 Moments" star Vyacheslav Tikhonov played KGB General Konstantinov, the protagonist of the "TASS..." series.Taisiya Belousova. [http://www.pressreader.com/russia/sovershenno-sekretno-informatsiya-k-razmyshleniyu/20160701/281513635545032 ]
Original film music score was composed by Eduard Artemyev as a blend of progressive rock and electronic music.
Plot
'Trianon' (Boris Klyuyev), a willing mole agent for the Americans, is providing his CIA handlers in Moscow with information on Soviet supplies to the fictional African state of Nagonia which he obtains through his high-positioned expert job. The KGB counterintelligence painstakingly identifies and neutralizes him. Trianon kills his fiancee who raised suspicions on his double life and then attempts to commit suicide when arrested, but the KGB secures his apprehension and interrogation.
At the same time in Nagonia, Soviet counterintelligence agent 'Slavin' (Yuri Solomin) risks his life assisting in identification of 'Trianon' and preventing local CIA resident 'Glabb' (Vakhtang Kikabidze) from staging a coup d'etat in the country by pro-American General Ogano against ruling progressive president Grisso. Several foreign whistleblowers providing Slavin with information are killed by Glabb's order.
As the result of successful KGB operation, the TASS state news agency issues a sensational news bulletin exposing the CIA plot.
Cast
* Vyacheslav Tikhonov as 'KGB General Konstantinov'
* Yury Solomin as 'Slavin'
* Nikolai Zasukhin as 'Makarov'
* Aleksei Petrenko as 'Paul Dick, journalist'
* Ivars Kalnins as 'Minayev'
* Nikolai Mikheyev as 'Pavel Savelyevich Ozersky'
* Nikolai Skorobogatov as 'Arkhipkin'
* Mikhail Gluzsky as 'Fyodorov'
* Irina Alfyorova as 'Olga Winter'
* Vladlen Davydov as 'Yeryomin'
* Boris Khimichev as 'Michael Welsh'
* Georgi Tejkh as 'Nelson Grin'
* Mikhail Zhigalov as 'Paramonov'
* Aristarkh Livanov as 'Welsh's assistant'
* Vladimir Mashchenko as 'Shargin'
* Zhanna Prokhorenko as 'Paramonova'
* Vakhtang Kikabidze as 'John Glabb, CIA resident to Nagonia'
* Eleonora Zubkova as 'Pilar, Glabb's mistress'
* Bolot Bejshenaliyev as 'Lao'
* Vladimir Belousov as 'Tsyzin'
* Vatslav Dvorzhetsky as 'Professor Winter'
* Konstantin Karelskikh as 'Luns'
* Aleksandr Karin as 'KGB officer'
* Vadim Andreev as 'Dronov, KGB lieutenant'
* Boris Klyuyev as 'Sergey Dubov (Agent 'Trianon')'
* Erwin Knausmller as 'U.S. Ambassador'
* Kalifa Konde as 'Ogano'
* Ermengeld Konovalov as 'Stau'
* Leonid Kuravlyov as 'Zotov'
* Marina Levtova as 'Olga Vronskaya'
* Pavel Makhotin as 'Yarantsev'
* Heino Mandri as 'Lorence, former CIA resident to Nagonia, killed by Glabb'
* Mikk Mikiver as 'Donald Gee, journalist'
* Aleksandr Pashutin as 'Gmyrya'
* Tatyana Plotnikova as 'Niyazmetova'
* Viktor Shulgin as 'Vogulyov'
* Eduard Martsevich as 'Dmitry Stepanov, a Soviet journalist'
* Lyudmila Solodenko as 'Doctor'
* Lembit Ulfsak as 'Schleyer'
* Valentina Titova as 'Potapenko'
* Olga Volkova as 'Emma Schanz, previous Glabb's wife'
* Leonid Yarmolnik as 'Grechayev'
* Georgi Yumatov as 'Ivan Belyu'
* Boris Bystrov as 'Agafonov, a KGB major, the investigator'
* Nadezhda Babkina as 'cameo'
* Stunts by Oleg Fedulov
See also
* Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik
References
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