Spin-offs and Parodies
In 2009, several international companies were hired to colorize the series. High costs and technical difficulties resulted in the removal of much footage from the original episodes. The new version was subject for criticism upon broadcast, including for the poor quality of the new format; the Communist Party of St. Petersburg led a campaign against it.
Stierlitz was also the hero of other films and television series made throughout the years, including the 1975 Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat]], the 1976 The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce, the 1980 Spanish Variant and the 2009 Isaev.
Samizdat parodies of Seventeen Moments of Spring were distributed already in the 1970, as well as such approved by the authorities. The 2008 film Gitler Kaput! was mainly intended as comical reinterpretation of Seventeen Moments. Anna Chapman starred in a parody of the scene in which Stierlitz and his wife met, broadcast by the Russian Channel 1 for the 2011 New Year's Eve.
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“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
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