Soviet intelligence officer Maxim Isaev, posing as SS standard-bearer Max-Otto von Stirlitz, works for many years in the political intelligence service of Nazi Germany. At the end of February 1945, he receives from the Center an incredibly difficult assignment: to find out details of secret negotiations between the Germans and their allies. His situation is complicated by the fact that his activities begin to attract the attention of the Gestapo. It doesn’t get any easier that the radio operator Kat, who ensures communications with Moscow, is about to give birth. And instead of the assistant Pleichner, who died, Stirlitz is forced to bring in for the job his own brother, whom— with great difficulty—one can only call a secret agent. In the future, troubles begin to fall one after another: not only is the operation on the verge of collapse, but Stirlitz himself faces exposure. This timeless film became a sensation. It entered the annals of Soviet cinema, became the subject of jokes—and lived on in the lives of several generations. Soviet intelligence found its incarnation in Maxim Maksimovich von Stirlitz, and the Germans— their human face.