TASS Is Authorized to Declare

TASS Is Authorized to Declare... ( _ru. ТАСС уполномочен заявить..., translit|TASS upolnomochen zayavit...) is a 1984 Soviet film directed by Vladimir Fokin based on a novel with the same name by Yulian Semyonov, also an author of Seventeen Moments of Spring. '17 Moments' star Vyacheslav Tikhonov played the central role of the KGB General in the film. Runtime - 700 min (10 episodes total). Cinematography by Igor Klebanov. Editor - Yelena Zabolotskaya. Production - Pyotr Pashkevich (Gorky Film Studio). Original film music score including the main theme was composed by Eduard Artemyev (synth. of rock and electronic music). Sound - Vladimir Prilensky.

Plot summary

A spy (Boris Klyuev) in Moscow is sending information to the CIA about the Soviet supplies to the fictional state of Nagonia. KGB neutralizes him.

At the same time in Nagonia, Soviet agent Slavin (Yuri Solomin) discredits Glabb thus preventing the coup d'etat in a capital of Luisburg by Ogano against George Grisso, the president of Nagonia...

Cast

* Vyacheslav Tikhonov as "KGB General Konstantinov"
* Yuri Solomin as "Slavin"
* Nikolai Zasukhin as "Makarov"
* Aleksei Petrenko as "Paul Dick, journalist"
* Ivars Kalnins as "Minayev"
* Nikolai Mikheyev
* 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
* Vladimir Mashchenko
* Zhanna Prokhorenko as "Paramonova"
* Vakhtang Kikabidze as "John Glabb, CIA resident to Nagonia"
* Eleonora Zubkova as "Pilar, Glabb's wife"
* Bolot Bejshenaliyev as "Lao"
* Vladimir Belousov as "Tsyzin"
* Vatslav Dvorzhetsky as "Professor Winter"
* Konstantin Karelskikh as "Luns"
* Aleksandr Karin
* Boris Klyuyev as "Sergey Dubov (Agent 'Trianon')"
* Ervin Knausmyuller 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"
* Lyudmila Solodenko as "Doctor"
* Valentina Titova as "Potapenko"
* Olga Volkova as "Emma Schanz, previous Glabb's wife"
* Leonid Yarmolnik as "Grechayev"
* Georgi Yumatov as "Ivan Belyu"
* Stunts by Oleg Fedulov

*imdb title|0086813